{"id":3183,"date":"2009-08-23T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T20:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2009-08-23T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T20:16:39","slug":"like-selling-cigarettes-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"Like Selling Cigarettes to Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I went to get a car charger for my new phone at our local T-Mobile store today.  I was so excited to find out that the charger for my old Wing will work with my Touch Pro2.  Now I have a charger for the house, a charger for the car (which has foldable prongs so I can actually use it at hotels when Brian and I travel), and a spare charger (the old Wing one) that I can leave at work.  I am ecstatic.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as we were leaving the store Brian ended up getting stalled by the Samsung Comeback phone display.  Oh, shiny!  Brian is like a child with ADD. Seriously.  &#8220;Let&#8217;s go,&#8221; I called out to him.  I was already at the door see.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s like, &#8220;Wait. Check out this phone.&#8221;  He was looking at the Samsung Comeback.  &#8220;It&#8217;s just like a Sidekick,&#8221; I said.  I have no idea why he found this phone interesting.  He hates Sidekicks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a <i>mini<\/i> Sidekick,&#8221; he proclaims like he&#8217;s discovered Alibaba&#8217;s treasure or something.  At this point, one of the store representatives chimes in to the conversation.  &#8220;We&#8217;re marketing it as a Back-to-School texting phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But kids aren&#8217;t allowed to text in school,&#8221; I said.  &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that like marketing cigarettes to young children?&#8221;  He didn&#8217;t have anything to say after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I went to get a car charger for my new phone at our local T-Mobile store today. I was so excited to find out that the charger for my old Wing will work with my Touch Pro2. Now I have a charger for the house, a charger for the car (which has foldable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[485,391,2485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}