{"id":394,"date":"2006-05-23T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2006-05-23T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-24T00:47:00","slug":"as-the-sky-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/05\/23\/as-the-sky-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"As the sky falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pandora plays my &#8220;Zero 7 Radio&#8221; at a quiet reference desk, one earbud in as I watch the rain fall outside and wonder what the spam email I just got means by &#8220;trombone Asian-American&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The email continues with such gems as:<\/p>\n<p>CAN BIGN HAVE YOU SPEEDING PAST OTHER TRADERS LIKE A ROADRUNNER ON STEROIDS?<\/p>\n<p>THE ALERT IS ON!!! DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE!!<\/p>\n<p>(and at the end) WARNING: You can lose all your money by investing in this stock.<\/p>\n<p>In the sense of poetry as original language, I think that a great deal of spam email qualifies.  I&#8217;m well-aware that many people take their spam email and create projects from it (spamusement, spam poetry, etc).  Almost all my spam email comes to my work address, and as such a lot of it gets filtered, but even so I find that it&#8217;s some of my favorite email I receive on my work account.  Would you rather know that your softball team got beat by 11 points, again, or sit and think about what a &#8220;trombone Asian-American&#8221; might be?<\/p>\n<p>Me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandora plays my &#8220;Zero 7 Radio&#8221; at a quiet reference desk, one earbud in as I watch the rain fall outside and wonder what the spam email I just got means by &#8220;trombone Asian-American&#8221;. The email continues with such gems as: CAN BIGN HAVE YOU SPEEDING PAST OTHER TRADERS LIKE A ROADRUNNER ON STEROIDS? 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":[9,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}