{"id":10139,"date":"2004-04-17T00:37:16","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T00:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10139"},"modified":"2004-04-17T00:37:16","modified_gmt":"2004-04-17T00:37:16","slug":"a-show-of-hands-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/17\/a-show-of-hands-please\/","title":{"rendered":"A show of hands please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists unraveled a new theory about the Internet this week that may change your life!  All Internet traffic now belongs to one of two categories: pornography or spam. <\/p>\n<p>This makes sense, because every 10 minutes another spam hits my inbox with a link to an adult web site, comes on for bigger breasts, free Viagra or Paris Hilton live in my hotel room tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my breasts are just fine thank you. If anything less would be better.  Paris Hilton seems OK, but when traveling without your significant other it&#8217;s best not to summon anyone to your hotel room except room service.  I&#8217;ll ask the wife about the Viagra thing just to be safe, but I&#8217;m pretty sure we don&#8217;t need it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you may be asking yourself, self why is sam boring me to tears with this factoid?   Golly gee, sam  I&#8217;ve known this about the Internet since 1997.  Get a clue sam &#8211; it&#8217;s all pornspam.  Or spamporn.  Go take a remedial Internet awareness course sam!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my point.  I manage to surf at least an hour of day, and none of it involves adult sites.  And I&#8217;m going to bet you do too and so do millions of others.  Hence, my point is \u2013 the hell with statistics.  Statistics lie.  Statistics are numbers that just can&#8217;t get seem to get their story straight. <\/p>\n<p>Unless of course they get me a book deal, in which case I love them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists unraveled a new theory about the Internet this week that may change your life! All Internet traffic now belongs to one of two categories: pornography or spam. This makes sense, because every 10 minutes another spam hits my inbox with a link to an adult web site, comes on for bigger breasts, free Viagra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}