{"id":6163,"date":"2009-11-10T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:22:17","slug":"open-letter-to-etrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6163","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To E*TRADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: E-Trade<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg<br \/>\nRe: The Kid.<\/p>\n<p>To whom it may concern,<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ll allow that the line &#8220;Shankapotamus&#8221; is inspired and hilarious, I can&#8217;t get around the fact that doctoring a toddler to sound like a whinging, chick-drink-slurping late-twentysomething yuppie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"477\" height=\"290\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pRPRVTQl6Sc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"477\" height=\"290\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pRPRVTQl6Sc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;gives me the serious creeps.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: E-Trade From: Mitch Berg Re: The Kid. To whom it may concern, While I&#8217;ll allow that the line &#8220;Shankapotamus&#8221; is inspired and hilarious, I can&#8217;t get around the fact that doctoring a toddler to sound like a whinging, chick-drink-slurping late-twentysomething yuppie&#8230; &#8230;gives me the serious creeps. That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-6163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-geekery","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33720,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions\/33720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}