{"id":1669,"date":"2007-12-12T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T22:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2007-12-12T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T22:50:41","slug":"more-fun-with-amazon-reviews-this-time-bic-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/12\/more-fun-with-amazon-reviews-this-time-bic-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"More fun with Amazon reviews: this time, Bic pens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/199405815\/more-fun-with-amazon.html\" >More fun with Amazon reviews: this time, Bic pens<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mikeshea.net\/\" >Mike<\/a> says: Some folks are having great fun with their reviews of a standard Bic black ballpoint pen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/200712121341.jpg\" height=\"169\" width=\"169\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"200712121341\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I looked down at the Bic Crystal black medium ballpoint pen which I held in my hand, only to see darkness. I dashed it against the wall, recoiling in horror. I saw in the corner of my eye my faithful notebook, which now lay on the ground. Once unmarred, I saw now the small mark which I had made with the devil&#8217;s own pen. It spread across the page like a plague, and looking at it I gazed upon true horrors. For, what I thought had been ink was in fact a portal to a dark, unforgiving dimension. A portal whose maw was now widening to engulf all hope and joy in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;God, what have I done?&#8217; I exclaimed as I weeped and fell to my knees, &#8216;What have I done?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>From beyond the Dark Gate I heard these words, words which I can never forget. A terrible, booming voice said to me, &#8216;Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000JTOYLS\/ref=cm_rdp_product\" >Link<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More fun with Amazon reviews: this time, Bic pens: Mike says: Some folks are having great fun with their reviews of a standard Bic black ballpoint pen. &#8220;I looked down at the Bic Crystal black medium ballpoint pen which I held in my hand, only to see darkness. I dashed it against the wall, recoiling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/12\/more-fun-with-amazon-reviews-this-time-bic-pens\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More fun with Amazon reviews: this time, Bic pens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-qV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}