{"id":2023,"date":"2009-08-31T15:09:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2009-09-01T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:14:09","slug":"extended-warranty-first-day-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/extended-warranty-first-day-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended warranty. First day on the job."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So me and Wakaba were discussing the finer points of Family Guy references when she pointed out that the crack I have on my Macbook might be covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/dudden.org\/?p=16\">extended warranty<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to think that the gaffers tape I&#8217;m using lends my laptop a certain patina &#8211; an anti-shine of cool &#8211; but called Apple up just to check. Turns out that I qualify for a replacement so what the hell, might as well prolong the life of my beloved companion.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the support drone at Apple had just started working there. He was adorable: Nervous as hell, he was humming under his breath before deciding on which line on his screen to read. There was silence ten seconds at the time and I imagined a guy who frantically is reminding himself &#8220;Don&#8217;t read the stage notes aloud, don&#8217;t read the stage notes aloud!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He exuded a fear akin to the one you might experience when you&#8217;re being asked a question you&#8217;re supposed to know the answer to, mumbling something in response that might or not sound like something that maybe possibly is in the vicinity of a vague statement resembling an answer.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Of course I remember your eye colour, baby; It&#8217;s brueen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He hesitated on every word and only sounded confident reading whole sentences verbatim. &#8220;I would like you to know that we have extensive support available on our homepage&#8221; was the one time he didn&#8217;t finish a sentence with a question mark. Plainly adorable, like a puppy fighting a blanket.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Regnbage_over_Grona_Vallen.jpg\" alt=\"Regnbage_over_Grona_Vallen\" title=\"Regnbage_over_Grona_Vallen\" width=\"640\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2025\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So me and Wakaba were discussing the finer points of Family Guy references when she pointed out that the crack I have on my Macbook might be covered by extended warranty. I&#8217;d like to think that the gaffers tape I&#8217;m using lends my laptop a certain patina &#8211; an anti-shine of cool &#8211; but called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/extended-warranty-first-day-on-the-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extended warranty. First day on the job.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,279],"tags":[909,906,908,905,907,910],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-photography","tag-apple","tag-cartoon","tag-extended-warranty","tag-eye-colour","tag-macbook","tag-nervous-guy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}