{"id":117,"date":"2004-02-26T08:40:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T08:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/02\/26\/and_the_connection_is\/"},"modified":"2004-02-26T08:40:35","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T08:40:35","slug":"and_the_connection_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/02\/26\/and_the_connection_is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the connection is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far this morning I have received four spam* for Viagra. I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;s spreading the rumour that I&#8217;m having problems keeping it up, but I&#8217;d like to go on record as saying that it&#8217;s as up as it ever was, given that I don&#8217;t have an it.<br \/>\nWhich means, by the way, that my it doesn&#8217;t need to be any longer or wider.<br \/>\nTwo of these spam, interestingly, employ what I assume is a filter-busting method: a long string of unrelated words in the subject line. To whit:<br \/>\n&#8220;elizabethan valois thermistor weiss aplomb crisis aileen clash eden quickie tallyho mcleod ogre onion ace proteolysis hollandaise&#8221;<br \/>\nAplomb?<br \/>\nAs in &#8216;he swallowed his Viagra with aplomb&#8217;?<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t even want to think about &#8216;hollandaise&#8217; in that context&#8230;<br \/>\n*<i>Is this the correct plural form? There are enough technical writers and their ilk reading this &#8211; is it spam? spams? spumati?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far this morning I have received four spam* for Viagra. I&#8217;m not sure who&#8217;s spreading the rumour that I&#8217;m having problems keeping it up, but I&#8217;d like to go on record as saying that it&#8217;s as up as it ever was, given that I don&#8217;t have an it. Which means, by the way, that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/02\/26\/and_the_connection_is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And the connection is?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}