{"id":6736,"date":"2015-03-25T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T23:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2015-03-25T19:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T23:33:26","slug":"why-i-refused-a-nice-request-from-a-bunch-of-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6736","title":{"rendered":"Why I refused a nice request from a bunch of kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curse my suspicious nature.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am, reading a very nice letter from a volunteer who is asking me to share a link on my calculator museum Web site to cheer up some kids:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6737\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel1.png\" alt=\"rachel1\" width=\"600\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel1.png 853w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel1-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, instead of doing as I was asked to do, I turned to Google. Somehow, this message just didn&#8217;t smell entirely kosher. The article to which I was supposed to link also appeared rather sterile, more like an uninspired homework assignment, with several factual errors. So I started searching.\u00a0It didn&#8217;t take very long until I found this gem:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6739\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel3.png 1094w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel3-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel3-1024x921.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, searching some more, I came across this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6738\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel2.png 1032w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel2-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel2-1024x741.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or how about this one:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6740\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel4.png 863w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rachel4-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looks like Ms. Martin has been a busy lady.<\/p>\n<p>So no, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be adding any links today.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6736' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curse my suspicious nature. Here I am, reading a very nice letter from a volunteer who is asking me to share a link on my calculator museum Web site to cheer up some kids: And then, instead of doing as I was asked to do, I turned to Google. Somehow, this message just didn&#8217;t smell <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6736' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-internet","category-51-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}