{"id":197,"date":"2006-12-06T16:20:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T23:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=197"},"modified":"2007-07-08T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T19:36:37","slug":"used-abused-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Used and Abused (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a co-worker told me a long story about buying a\u00a0Mercedes-Benz.\u00a0 A woman caught her fiance cheating and\u00a0told him to get out of her life.\u00a0 He split in a hurry, leaving his car behind.\u00a0 A few days later she got a letter from the cad, ordering her to sell the car and wire him the money.\u00a0 Somehow my co-worker got wind of the story and tracked the woman down.\u00a0 He offered her $100 for the car and she took it.\u00a0 He drove away in a nearly-new Mercedes.\u00a0 The ex-fiance got what he deserved.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t say anything, other than Really, How Interesting, etc.\u00a0 My co-worker must think I don&#8217;t get out much, to tell me a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/love\/revenge\/porsche.asp\">whopper<\/a> like that.\u00a0 And I think less of him for abusing me that way.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I didn&#8217;t think much of that shitbird in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a co-worker told me a long story about buying a\u00a0Mercedes-Benz.\u00a0 A woman caught her fiance cheating and\u00a0told him to get out of her life.\u00a0 He split in a hurry, leaving his car behind.\u00a0 A few days later she got a letter from the cad, ordering her to sell the car and wire him the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}