{"id":1359,"date":"2010-07-14T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:23:21","slug":"click-the-word-that-describes-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Click the Word That Describes Them&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ClassmatesLaneTechGirl500Wide.jpg\" alt=\"ClassmatesLaneTechGirl500Wide.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"498\"\/><\/p>\n<p>How about&#8230; &#8220;imaginary&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=976\">As I&#8217;ve said before with respect to fraudulent pitches like this<\/a>, <em>there were no girls in Lane&#8217;s Class of 1970<\/em>. And I&#8217;ve heard from others who have paid up for the service in response to Classmates&#8217; endless emails, only to find that no one had signed their guestbooks, and no one was looking for them. Once I&#8217;d call a mistake. But this is actually the third such pitch I&#8217;ve received (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1075\">I mentioned the second back in January<\/a>) and three&#8217;s a pattern. I suspect I will get another every so often.<\/p>\n<p>Simple lesson, put bluntly: <em>Assume that everything you receive from Classmates.com is a scam<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about&#8230; &#8220;imaginary&#8221;? As I&#8217;ve said before with respect to fraudulent pitches like this, there were no girls in Lane&#8217;s Class of 1970. And I&#8217;ve heard from others who have paid up for the service in response to Classmates&#8217; endless emails, only to find that no one had signed their guestbooks, and no one was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43,5],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-humor","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}