{"id":639,"date":"2003-05-01T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2003-05-01T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-01T20:25:00","slug":"because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I am a Bastard who doesn&#8217;t have an NDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Jacks has a new promotion. Apparently, after the &#8220;dread failure&#8221; of putting &#8216;red apples&#8217; into apple jacks. The cereal that tastes nothing like it looks like has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kelloggs.com\/promotions\/ajnew\/default.html\">put up a mock election<\/a> for you the public to choose the next incongruous shape to be added.<\/p>\n<p>Mock election? How could I say such horrible things about the beauty that is democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Well, having just waled past the rather elaborate commercial being filmed with the kid caucus celebrating the triumph of <b>Blue Carrot<\/b>. That&#8217;s right. You people who were hoping for Brown Banana or Orange <i>Discs<\/i> (Disc: One of my favourite fruits or vegetables), give it up. It&#8217;s fixed. The commercials are already in production and &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone actually still buy into any of this stuff?<\/p>\n<p>In the wizened words of my good friend, colleague, and fellow member of my church and order, &#8220;Hand-wave, hand-wave, hand-wave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-639\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-639\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-639\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Jacks has a new promotion. Apparently, after the &#8220;dread failure&#8221; of putting &#8216;red apples&#8217; into apple jacks. The cereal that tastes nothing like it looks like has put up a mock election for you the public to choose the next incongruous shape to be added. Mock election? How could I say such horrible things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-639\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-639\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-639\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/because-i-am-a-bastard-who-doesnt-have-an-nda\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1X6ba-aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}