{"id":1946,"date":"2008-04-03T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2008-04-03T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:39:00","slug":"the-fish-eggs-are-greener-on-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/the-internet-is-fun\/the-fish-eggs-are-greener-on-the-other-side\/","title":{"rendered":"The fish eggs are greener on the other side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a Yahoo! e-mail account that I rarely to never log into. Pretty much the only stuff that goes to that account is a bunch of newsletters I managed to get signed up for during my last couple of years of college. Actually, it&#8217;s such a short list that I can name them all \u2014 <i>Sidelines<\/i>, Saks Fifth Avenue, Circuit City, SpaLook, and NARAL. <\/p>\n<p>I just logged in to check on something, and had to laugh when I noticed the targeted ads. Check these out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/2384751587\/\" title=\"ads I don't normally see by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3258\/2384751587_4d1c6d84ea.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"68\" alt=\"ads I don't normally see\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mmmm, beluga. <\/p>\n<p>You can imagine my shock at seeing such ads, since I&#8217;m used to seeing crap like this in my Gmail, where I carry on my <i>real<\/i> conversations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/2384751795\/\" title=\"ads I normally see by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3103\/2384751795_2e1137c72b_o.jpg\" width=\"214\" height=\"212\" alt=\"ads I normally see\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a Yahoo! e-mail account that I rarely to never log into. Pretty much the only stuff that goes to that account is a bunch of newsletters I managed to get signed up for during my last couple of years of college. Actually, it&#8217;s such a short list that I can name them all \u2014 Sidelines, Saks Fifth Avenue, Circuit City, SpaLook, and NARAL. I just logged in to check on something, and had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-internet-is-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-vo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}