{"id":850,"date":"2008-06-14T12:22:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2008-06-21T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T23:12:32","slug":"those-stimulus-checks-must-have-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Those Stimulus Checks Must Have Landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get the feeling that those ridiculous self-defeating election-year-suckup economic stimulus checks must have started arriving in people&#8217;s mailboxes. It&#8217;s the best explanation I have for the fact that Margaret&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=807\">recent post<\/a> about our remodeling is receiving a hefty dose of traffic from Google image searches for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;q=stackable+washer+dryer&amp;btnG=Search+Images\">stackable washer dryer<\/a>&#8220;. As of this post we rank #12. \u2757<\/p>\n<p>Even more interesting, some of the earliest searches I found in this particular vein came from a block of IP addresses owned by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\">Internal Revenue Service<\/a>. I suppose it shouldn&#8217;t surprise me that those folks got their checks first&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Keep spending that dough, America! if you <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> buy a 42 inch plasma TV, the terrorists win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get the feeling that those ridiculous self-defeating election-year-suckup economic stimulus checks must have started arriving in people&#8217;s mailboxes. It&#8217;s the best explanation I have for the fact that Margaret&#8217;s recent post about our remodeling is receiving a hefty dose of traffic from Google image searches for &#8220;stackable washer dryer&#8220;. As of this post we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}