{"id":2228,"date":"2004-02-11T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/11\/brother-for-sale\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:14:21","slug":"brother-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/11\/brother-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11781,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\\\/news\\\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1120&amp;idq=\\\/ff\\\/story\\\/0001%2F20040211%2F1815259008.htm&amp;sc=1120&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Many years ago, I might have thought that this sounded like a <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.netscape.cnn.com\/news\/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1120&amp;idq=\/ff\/story\/0001%2F20040211%2F1815259008.htm&amp;sc=1120\" title=\"Typo Changes Ad to 'Brother for Sale'\">really good idea<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Barbara Bennett wanted to sell her Brother brand sewing machine, so she bought a classified advertisement under &#8220;Miscellaneous&#8221; and &#8220;Items under \\$50&#8221; in The Columbian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>  Instead, the words &#8220;sewing machine&#8221; were accidentally dropped, leaving a &#8220;BROTHER&#8221; for sale ad.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via Prairie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;the words &#8216;sewing machine&#8217; were accidentally dropped, leaving a &#8216;BROTHER&#8217; for sale ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6,39],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}