{"id":123,"date":"2007-03-06T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2011-05-17T22:27:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T06:27:42","slug":"no-good-deed-goes-unpunished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"No good deed goes unpunished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently learned that if you type &#8220;origin snail mail&#8221; into Google, my name is associated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/mailman.postel.org\/pipermail\/internet-history\/2002-July\/000084.html\">number one hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may wonder how I&#8217;ve come to know such an odd fact.  Well, I&#8217;ve been contacted by some fellow who is claiming that he came up with the word &#8220;before there was an Internet.&#8221;  In 1990.  (I have internet code that&#8217;s older than that and I&#8217;m no great shakes.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not worried about this whack-O, of course.  I&#8217;ll just send him off with a hearty shove.  I&#8217;m just worried about more in the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone out there would like to write a nice long essay on the origin of the phrase &#8220;snail mail,&#8221; I&#8217;d be delighted to Google bomb it for you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently learned that if you type &#8220;origin snail mail&#8221; into Google, my name is associated with the number one hit. You may wonder how I&#8217;ve come to know such an odd fact. Well, I&#8217;ve been contacted by some fellow who is claiming that he came up with the word &#8220;before there was an [&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-123","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\/123","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=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}