{"id":509,"date":"2006-06-27T15:27:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2006-06-27T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T19:27:40","slug":"rr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2006\/06\/27\/rr\/","title":{"rendered":"r&#038;r"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I shipped my less-than-two-month-old <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=506\">camera<\/a> back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canon.ca\">Canon<\/a> for repairs. In the process of shipping it I learned several things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I really dislike packaging fragile things for shipping. Think &#8220;snowball made of cardboard and bubble wrap&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>I should be more careful with carpet knives if I expect to have all my fingers when I die (cause in the afterlife, they&#8217;re oh-so-useful!)<\/li>\n<li>You can insure stuff for $2,000 when you use Canada Post, and it costs around $14.<\/li>\n<li>Faye Raye was Canadian, and they have a stamp to commemorate that (along with Lorne Greene and others).<\/li>\n<li>My car needs a new water pump.<\/li>\n<li>Canon USA Tech Support rocks.<\/li>\n<li>Canon Canada Tech Support doesn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>You can get a ticket for parking in the 15 minute Canada Post parking area if you&#8217;re there for less than 15 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping it comes home happy, rested, and unbroken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I shipped my less-than-two-month-old camera back to Canon for repairs. In the process of shipping it I learned several things: I really dislike packaging fragile things for shipping. Think &#8220;snowball made of cardboard and bubble wrap&#8221;. I should be more careful with carpet knives if I expect to have all my fingers when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}