{"id":9599,"date":"2011-05-31T09:49:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2011-05-31T09:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T13:49:48","slug":"colby-cosh-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/colby-cosh-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Cosh tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Cosh works for <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em>, which is owned by the same corporate entity that provides his cell phone service. He&#8217;s not been impressed with his employer&#8217;s other line of business:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/colbycosh\/statuses\/75478680587087873\" target=\"_blank\">Tue 31 May 04:28<\/a> (On the whole, I would rather buy a mealworm-infested phone from a Somali pirate than deal with Rogers any further.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/colbycosh\/statuses\/75479840140169216\" target=\"_blank\">Tue 31 May 04:32<\/a> (A pirate prob wouldn&#8217;t tell me how *lucky* I was to get a refurbished battery to replace the inert one in the phone he sold me 4 wks ago.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/colbycosh\/statuses\/75480139814809600\" target=\"_blank\">Tue 31 May 04:34<\/a> (\u2026which I had to relinquish for 2 weeks in order for the incalculably complex operation of &#8220;swapping in a working battery&#8221; to be executed.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/colbycosh\/statuses\/75480371801751552\" target=\"_blank\">Tue 31 May 04:34<\/a> (\u2026Not a NEW battery, mind you. I bought the PHONE new, but the replacement battery is refurbished. I am explicitly supposed to be grateful.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colby Cosh works for Maclean&#8217;s, which is owned by the same corporate entity that provides his cell phone service. He&#8217;s not been impressed with his employer&#8217;s other line of business: Tue 31 May 04:28 (On the whole, I would rather buy a mealworm-infested phone from a Somali pirate than deal with Rogers any further.) Tue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57,15],"tags":[469,547],"class_list":["post-9599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","category-technology","tag-monopolies","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}