{"id":809,"date":"2010-05-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:34:54","slug":"weird-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"Weird Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I received the following email message:<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<pre>Sub: hi booted harleydude<br \/>Message:<br \/>dear booted harley dude<br \/>how you doing<br \/>i got apartment<br \/>you are cool<br \/>my home phone number is 352-xxx-xxxx<br \/>my cell phone number is 352-yyy-yyyy<br \/>mail it your leather pants<br \/>your friend [name withheld]<\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I am rather understanding and accepting of all people.  However, this message left me scratching my head.  What did this guy want?  Who is he?  This is the first message I have ever received from him.<\/p>\n<p>One would think, &#8220;aw, give the guy a break.  He may be from another country.&#8221;  Generally, I would give a much wider latitude in not understanding how to write in English or communicate in a first message to someone who lived somewhere else, but this guy lives in the United States (I validated it from the IP address of the sender.)<\/p>\n<p>I try hard to respond to every legitimate, non-viagra-vending-spam email message that I get.  But this one left me confused and, to be honest, mildly offended.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote back and said, &#8220;thanks for your message.  I do not call people who I do not know on the telephone,&#8221; and left it at that.<\/p>\n<p>If you received such a message, what would you have done?<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  resolve confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the following email message: Sub: hi booted harleydudeMessage:dear booted harley dudehow you doingi got apartmentyou are coolmy home phone number is 352-xxx-xxxxmy cell phone number is 352-yyy-yyyymail it your leather pantsyour friend [name withheld] I am rather understanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=809\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}