{"id":24386,"date":"2014-01-20T17:53:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=24386"},"modified":"2014-01-20T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:05:24","slug":"amazon-anticipatory-shipping-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/01\/20\/amazon-anticipatory-shipping-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Vendor Venting (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vendor Venting (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>A package arrives, which I lift.<br \/>\nSince I&#8217;ve NOT placed an order, I&#8217;m miffed.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a greedy misdeed<br \/>\nTo anticipate need.<br \/>\nDear Amazon: Thanks for the gift.<\/p>\n<p>Note from Mad Kane: This hasn&#8217;t actually happened to me, but it&#8217;s only a matter of time.  Why?  Because Amazon has just patented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/01\/18\/amazon-anticipates-orders\/4637895\/\">&#8220;anticipatory shipping.&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Yes, Amazon thinks it knows what we want, even before we know we want it.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry Amazon, but my husband can&#8217;t read my mind &#8230; and neither can you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vendor Venting (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane A package arrives, which I lift. Since I&#8217;ve NOT placed an order, I&#8217;m miffed. It&#8217;s a greedy misdeed To anticipate need. Dear Amazon: Thanks for the gift. Note from Mad Kane: This hasn&#8217;t actually happened to me, but it&#8217;s only a matter of time. Why? Because Amazon has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,42,8,45,3],"tags":[1007,3984,496,188,2252,1206,629,4903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24386"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24401,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24386\/revisions\/24401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}