{"id":38780,"date":"2011-01-24T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ricky-the-roomba-made-us-feel-bad-too-for-one\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:24:18","slug":"ricky-the-roomba-made-us-feel-bad-too-for-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/ricky-the-roomba-made-us-feel-bad-too-for-one\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ricky [The Roomba] made us feel bad, too. For one, he couldn\u2019t hold a battery charge to save his life, you could say, because it felt like we were always saying, \u201cRicky\u2019s dead,\u201d \u201cRicky died,\u201d or my favorite, \u201cWhy you dead, Ricky?\u201d And it was all the worse when he\u2019d die in the middle of vacuuming, because it was like, wow, he loved us so much that he gave his life for our carpet. When we replaced Ricky with a soulless Dyson I felt awful \u2014 until my husband took Ricky to his office at work permanently, so it\u2019s like Ricky got to go live on a farm and play with new people who will appreciate him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/user\/67168\">Nattie<\/a> &#8211; in a hilarious comment on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/99661\/But-but-is-not-Johnny-5-alive#3472942\">But, but is Johnny 5 alive?<\/a> thread on Metafilter. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.benbashford.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">bashford<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky [The Roomba] made us feel bad, too. For one, he couldn\u2019t hold a battery charge to save his life, you could say, because it felt like we were always saying, \u201cRicky\u2019s dead,\u201d \u201cRicky died,\u201d or my favorite, \u201cWhy you dead, Ricky?\u201d And it was all the worse when he\u2019d die in the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[780,781,1539],"class_list":{"0":"post-38780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"hentry","6":"tag-edp","7":"tag-emergent-digital-practices","9":"post_format-post-format-quote"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-a5u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}