{"id":15718,"date":"2007-02-12T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2007\/02\/12\/hey-dude\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:49:46","slug":"hey-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2007\/02\/12\/hey-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, dude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since when was &#8220;dude&#8221; an appropriate honourific to use in business communication? Okay, the &#8220;business communication&#8221; I&#8217;m referring to here is spam, so perhaps I&#8217;m being too picky. But before someone insults my genitals, offers me a mortgage in the U.S., or tells me how I can get rich by having a university degree*, I want him to call me &#8220;Sir&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>*But I <em>have<\/em> a university degree. Why am I not rich? The last time I got one of those &#8220;a degree will get you $30-40,000 extra a year&#8221; messages, I forwarded it to Magda in payroll. She laughed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/987\/hey-dude0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since when was &#8220;dude&#8221; an appropriate honourific to use in business communication? Okay, the &#8220;business communication&#8221; I&#8217;m referring to here is spam, so perhaps I&#8217;m being too picky. But before someone insults my genitals, offers me a mortgage in the U.S., or tells me how I can get rich by having a university degree*, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}