{"id":3509,"date":"2006-01-29T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T21:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/01\/29\/how-dum-do-they-think-we-are\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:49:53","slug":"how-dum-do-they-think-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/01\/29\/how-dum-do-they-think-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"How dum do they think we are?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While perusing a bag of Salt and Vinegar potato chips today at lunch*, I noticed that the website for Schlotsky&#8217;s Deli is CoolDeli.com. [<em>Update: Well, it was once. Trust me on this, OK?<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>I find it objectionable and personally offensive that Shlotsky&#8217;s would have so little faith in the ability of the American public to spell &#8220;Schotskies&#8221; correctly that it would stoop to such obviously patronizing methods. I mean, who does Schlozkee&#8217;s think it is, anyway, that it can&#8217;t even use its own name in its website URL?<\/p>\n<p>I think the message is clear: Sholshkey&#8217;s Deli doesn&#8217;t credit its own customers with even the most rudimentary spelling skills. That, or it&#8217;s ashamed of its own name. Either way, I have to say, &#8220;shame, shame on you, Shlawtski&#8217;s Deli.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"smaller\">*Yep, lunch after church is a big deal &#8217;round these parts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherein the spotlight of public ridicule is brought to bear on a shameful practice of a successful American franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14266,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/14266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}