{"id":116,"date":"2007-02-06T21:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-02-06T21:30:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T05:30:56","slug":"i-dont-know-why-this-is-so-funny-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t know why this is so funny to me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few years ago when GWB and company mailed out all those up to $300.00 checks as a little bribe to support their tax policies?  Well, I got a check and never cashed it.  I meant to cash it and make a charitable contribution or burn it as avgas or something, but I never quite remembered to.  The first check expired and they sent me another, with the interest on my $300.00 dutifully added in.  We went round on it a couple times, and I&#8217;ve still never cashed it.  I think they&#8217;ll still mail me a cashable one (the last one has also expired) if I call a number or something.<br \/>\nBut, despite the fact that I&#8217;ve never taken a dollar of the bribe, they send me a 1099 for the interest every year.  This strikes me as hysterically funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few years ago when GWB and company mailed out all those up to $300.00 checks as a little bribe to support their tax policies? Well, I got a check and never cashed it. I meant to cash it and make a charitable contribution or burn it as avgas or something, but I never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}