{"id":154,"date":"2005-02-14T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T10:12:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-14T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T10:12:15","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of junk email.  About 100 messages per day at the last count.  Occasionally, I scan through the subject headings of message that get caught in the spam trap.  Usually, there are a number of financical scams, some porn-related stuff (&#8220;Impress your wife\/girlfriend with [&#8230;]&#8221; etc.), cheap software, cheap pharmaceuticals, blah blah blah.  Today, one of them caught my eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Impress your wife with a cheap copy of Windows XP&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today of all days.<\/p>\n<p>I can just see it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Husband:<\/b> Darling, look what I bought you for Valentine&#8217;s Day &#8230;<br \/>\n<b>Wife:<\/b> What? What the hell is this?<br \/>\n<b>Husband:<\/b> It&#8217;s a <i>cheap copy of Windows XP<\/i>, my love.<br \/>\n<b>Wife:<\/b> Eh? Why are you giving me this??<br \/>\n<b>Husband:<\/b> But aren&#8217;t you <i>impressed<\/i>, darling?<br \/>\n<b>Wife:<\/b> Why you &#8230; #%*(@>< }!!!!<br \/>\netc.<\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a lot of junk email. About 100 messages per day at the last count. Occasionally, I scan through the subject headings of message that get caught in the spam trap. Usually, there are a number of financical scams, some porn-related stuff (&#8220;Impress your wife\/girlfriend with [&#8230;]&#8221; etc.), cheap software, cheap pharmaceuticals, blah blah&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=154\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}