{"id":123,"date":"2007-09-22T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/09\/my-new-yorker-subscription.html"},"modified":"2010-03-23T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:27:43","slug":"my-new-yorker-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/09\/my-new-yorker-subscription.html","title":{"rendered":"My New Yorker Subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve figured out how to con my local public radio station out of an extra year of the free New Yorker subscription I got as a gift for becoming a member.<\/p>\n<p>How, you ask? Very simple. They send me a new magazine every week this year. I only have time to read them once in a while and on vacations (when I try to catch up). Meanwhile, the pile of unread magazines continues to grow on my bedside table. The equation looks something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>x<\/em> = 1\/2<em>y<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where <em>x<\/em> is the rate at which I read New Yorkers and <em>y<\/em> is the rate at which they arrive in my mail box.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So you see, NPR <em>thought<\/em> they were giving me a year&#8217;s worth of reading pleasure, but they were actually giving me 2 years of enjoyment. Mwa-ha-ha-ha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve figured out how to con my local public radio station out of an extra year of the free New Yorker subscription I got as a gift for becoming a member. How, you ask? Very simple. They send me a new magazine every week this year. I only have time to read them once in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/09\/my-new-yorker-subscription.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My New Yorker Subscription<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}