{"id":1813,"date":"2004-09-01T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T16:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2004-09-01T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T16:47:47","slug":"carbon-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just in the break room getting a cup of coffee and I met one of the new student part-time workers.  He was going through a box of office supplies while I was in there and they found a box of something they couldn&#8217;t identify.  Thin tissue sheets, plain on one side, covered with greasy looking black on the other.  He took one out and looked at it with obvious confusion for a few seconds then said, &#8220;Excuse me sir?  Do you know what this is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s carbon paper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh.  What&#8217;s it for?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Suddenly I feel old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just in the break room getting a cup of coffee and I met one of the new student part-time workers. He was going through a box of office supplies while I was in there and they found a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}