{"id":116,"date":"2007-12-27T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T03:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-12-27T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T03:59:51","slug":"three-seventy-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/12\/27\/three-seventy-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Three seventy-seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Abbott and Costello moment at a Wal-Mart where I was buying a 377-type of watch battery for my mom:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I need a three seventy-seven watch battery.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Okay, that&#8217;s three seventy-seven.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Right.  Three seventy-seven.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Three seventy-seven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By then I had realized that she meant that the 377 battery coincidentally cost $3.77, although the clerk seemed kind of oblivious to that and to her ambiguous wording.  Or maybe she just got a kick out of confusing customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Abbott and Costello moment at a Wal-Mart where I was buying a 377-type of watch battery for my mom: &#8220;Hi, I need a three seventy-seven watch battery.&#8221; &#8220;Okay, that&#8217;s three seventy-seven.&#8221; &#8220;Right. Three seventy-seven.&#8221; &#8220;Three seventy-seven.&#8221; By then I had realized that she meant that the 377 battery coincidentally cost $3.77, although the clerk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}