{"id":174,"date":"2008-02-27T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/IStartedOutAmused.aspx"},"modified":"2008-02-27T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:09:26","slug":"i-started-out-amused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/i-started-out-amused\/","title":{"rendered":"I started out amused&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; now I&#8217;m just annoyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Istartedoutamused_8ECF\/image_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"244\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Istartedoutamused_8ECF\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"109\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <em><font size=\"1\">here&#8217;s Elmo!<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After changing the batteries on her son&#8217;s Elmo doll, Elmo appears to be channeling Jack Nicholson.&#160; The programmable doll is able to learn a child&#8217;s name and repeat it as part of a variety of phrases.&#160; A glitch, however, makes it sound like it&#8217;s saying &quot;Kill James&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Death-threat Elmo brightened my day a bit until I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/us\/2008\/02\/22\/delaney.death.threat.elmo.cnn?iref=videosearch\">the CNN video<\/a>.&#160; What killed the buzz?&#160; The mother is obviously angling for a cash settlement from Fisher-Price.&#160; Fisher-Price offered to replace the toy and investigate, so why does the mother still have the toy which she states has her &quot;distraught&quot; and is causing her a &quot;hassle&quot;?&#160; She clearly thinks she&#8217;s holding a little red lottery ticket.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon lady, take the replacement doll and laugh it off!&#160; Worry less about how your kid is affected by the doll and more about what he learns from how you handle the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; now I&#8217;m just annoyed. here&#8217;s Elmo! After changing the batteries on her son&#8217;s Elmo doll, Elmo appears to be channeling Jack Nicholson.&#160; The programmable doll is able to learn a child&#8217;s name and repeat it as part of a variety of phrases.&#160; A glitch, however, makes it sound like it&#8217;s saying &quot;Kill James&quot;. Death-threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webweird"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}