{"id":311,"date":"2006-12-20T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T04:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-12-20\/311"},"modified":"2006-12-20T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T04:56:21","slug":"a-cold-and-keeping-ones-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-12-20\/311","title":{"rendered":"A Cold, and Keeping One&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>\n\nI've had a cold (and still do... ugh!), which is why I'm not writing much,\nbut something just happened that makes me really wonder why people can't\nkeep their word.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nI <a href=\"\/blog\/2006-12-05\/300\">ordered <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span>\ncomputer<\/a> two weeks ago, and Dell said that I'd get it to me near\nChristmas, but it actually arrived <span class='nobr'>a week<\/span> ago (and is wonderful and\nzippy).<\/p>\n\n<p>And now, two minutes ago, a deliveryman shows up with my camera, back\nfrom <a href=\"\/blog\/2006-12-11\/308\">service at Nikon<\/a>.\nNikon had promised it on Dec 23rd, but here <span class='nobr'>I am<\/span> with it three days early.<\/p>\n\n<p>\nI'm so glad people can't keep their word! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n<p>(I haven't even opened the box from Nikon yet, but just looking at it\nmakes me feel the cold ease <span class='nobr'>a bit.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I know what<\/span> I'm doing this\nafternoon....)<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I've had a cold (and still do... ugh!), which is why I'm not writing much, but something just happened that makes me really wonder why people can't keep their word. <\/p><p> I ordered a new computer two weeks ago, and Dell said that I'd get it to me near Christmas, but it actually arrived a week ago (and is wonderful and zippy).<\/p> <p>And now, two minutes ago, a deliveryman shows up with my camera, back from service at Nikon. Nikon had promised it on Dec 23rd, but here I am with it three days early.<\/p> <p> I'm so glad [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}