{"id":3017,"date":"2013-12-11T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T03:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2013-12-11T21:39:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T03:39:02","slug":"taking-things-too-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2013\/12\/11\/taking-things-too-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Things Too Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCancel it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t understand what he meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancel it. Right there.\u201d He pointed to the screen. \u201cClick the X.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I clicked the button with the red X on it, the button that said <em>Cancel<\/em> underneath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo!\u201d he said, but it was too late. I had cancelled it. I had click the X. But I had done the wrong thing.<\/p>\n<p>You see when he said \u201ccancel,\u201d he didn\u2019t really mean click on the cancel button, rather he meant <em>close the window<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And when he said \u201cclick the X\u201d and pointed to a button with a big red X on it, he didn\u2019t intend for me to click the button, rather he meant for me to <em>close the window<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I just take things too literally.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCancel it,\u201d he said. I didn\u2019t understand what he meant. \u201cCancel it. Right there.\u201d He pointed to the screen. \u201cClick the X.&#8221; So I clicked the button with the red X on it, the button that said Cancel underneath. \u201cNo!\u201d he said, but it was too late. I had cancelled it. I had click the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}