{"id":12891,"date":"2008-12-18T14:19:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/extended-service-warranties\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T14:19:50","slug":"extended-service-warranties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/extended-service-warranties\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Service Warranties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Conversation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frigidarium\">frigidarium<\/a>&#0160;one morning drifted onto the weighty topic of extended service warranties. A poolmate explained how a zealous salesman tried to sell her such a warranty on a <em>filing cabinet<\/em>! It occurred to me that even more absurd would be extended warranties on ball peen hammers and anvils. Or how about coffins? <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&quot;If in the first one hundred years of your subterranean repose you should ever experience any moisture or other intrusion due to a failure of the seals, just call our toll-free number conveniently stamped on the underside of the coffin lid, and a repairman will come to your gravesite, exhume your coffin, make necessary repairs, and restore everything to its original condition. All at no additional expense.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversation in the frigidarium&#0160;one morning drifted onto the weighty topic of extended service warranties. A poolmate explained how a zealous salesman tried to sell her such a warranty on a filing cabinet! It occurred to me that even more absurd would be extended warranties on ball peen hammers and anvils. Or how about coffins? &quot;If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/extended-service-warranties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Extended Service Warranties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}