{"id":3608,"date":"2010-04-20T11:21:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2010-04-20T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:51:18","slug":"what-year-is-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/what-year-is-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What year IS it, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dailythunk.jpg\" alt=\"another thunk\" title=\"dailythunk\" width=\"100\" height=\"136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2594\" \/>\n<p>Today I am informed via an email from PayPal that a request I made in 2000 for a payment from an eBay customer was canceled:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amount: $11.19 USD<\/p>\n<p>Date: Jun. 7, 2000<\/p>\n<p>Subject: Soul Asylum Lp..342457565<\/p>\n<p>Note: you can pay me via credit card using this route, if you like, otherwise I will need your number, exp date, card type by email, fax or phone, your choice  thanks, steve<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, that took a while to be resolved.  <\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t the &#8220;oldest&#8221; thing to come to my attention today.  I received three checks from the Dickinson County Clerk Of Court totaling around thirty bucks in restitution for a check-writing spree a looney went on in 1997.  I was one of their victims, to the tune of $102.11, it says here.<\/p>\n<p>Well, harrumph, let that be a lesson to them-do not commit crimes of fraud like intentionally writing bad checks to your local warm fuzzy head shop.  It will catch up with you.<\/p>\n<p>And it looks to me like you still owe me seventy bucks and in this particular case, sooner is probably better than later, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to the David Johansen 60&#8217;s Animals medley I was listening to&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?attachment_id=3610' rel='attachment wp-att-3610' target=\"_blank\"> David Johansen &#8211; Animals Medley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\");\ndocument.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\ntry {\nvar pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-12808312-1\");\npageTracker._setDomainName(\".saintstevensthingery.com\");\npageTracker._trackPageview();\n} catch(err) {}<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am informed via an email from PayPal that a request I made in 2000 for a payment from an eBay customer was canceled: Amount: $11.19 USD Date: Jun. 7, 2000 Subject: Soul Asylum Lp..342457565 Note: you can pay me via credit card using this route, if you like, otherwise I will need your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/what-year-is-it-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What year IS it, anyway?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[646,612,1147,450,1145,1146,1150,1149,1013,65,1148],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rdm-thoughts","tag-646","tag-612","tag-animals","tag-audio","tag-bad-checks","tag-david-johansen","tag-dont-bring-me-down","tag-its-my-life","tag-paypal","tag-rainy-day-music","tag-we-gotta-get-out-of-this-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}