{"id":55,"date":"2003-04-25T17:53:19","date_gmt":"2003-04-25T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:57:12","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:57:12","slug":"i-hate-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/25\/i-hate-them\/","title":{"rendered":"i hate them"},"content":{"rendered":"

today, technology is not my friend.
\nfirst off, blogger<\/a> is totally
\nacting up; they weirded up my weblog template so that this frame is not resizing.
\nI’m hoping this, too, will pass. in the meanwhile, sorry to those of you viewing
\nmy site on small screens. this is the second time i’ve had to say "blogger<\/a>
\nis usually great." hmmmmm…
\nsecond, the internet broke at our place in Joburg; it took me all day to get online.
\nand third, now that i am<\/i> online, my email, which has not been answered
\nin days and is already as clogged as my body (getting over the flu and<\/i>
\na stomach virus), is refusing to download new messages into my email app.
\nSigh.
\nWon’t
\nsomebody please remind me why i like these bloody machines?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

today, technology is not my friend. first off, blogger is totally acting up; they weirded up my weblog template so that this frame is not resizing. I’m hoping this, too, will pass. in the meanwhile, sorry to those of you viewing my site on small screens. this is the second time i’ve had to say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":345,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/18\/comments\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":0},"title":"comments","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Comments have now been added to my blog! 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