{"id":475,"date":"2009-04-23T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/04\/23\/despair-inc-cynical-snickers-for-ex-city-slickers\/"},"modified":"2009-04-23T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T12:36:00","slug":"despair-inc-cynical-snickers-for-ex-city-slickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Despair Inc. &#8212; Cynical Snickers for (ex-)City Slickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/site.despair.com\/despairwear\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/articles\/blog\/660000266\/20090423\/irony%20tee.jpg\"><\/a>There&#8217;s just something about a witty, jaundiced point of view that warms the cockles of this ex-New Yorker&#8217;s heart. When we moved to Vermont from the city, I bought Josie a mug that said, &quot;Please talk faster, I&#8217;m from NY.&quot; She used it.<\/p>\n<p> So imagine my delight when Sharyn November posted a link on Facebook this morning to the <a href=\"http:\/\/site.despair.com\/1randomthing\/\">Despair Inc<\/a>. guy&#8217;s website. And in honor of Alison Morris and her most excellent t-shirt links, which I know are sorely missed, I decided to re-FB (the Facebook version of re-tweeting) this little tidbit.<\/p>\n<p> I had seen these folks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/despair.com\/viewall.html\">Demotivator<\/a> posters, which are hilarious, but was not aware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/despair.com\/15ozcoffeemugs.html\">mugs<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/site.despair.com\/despairwear\/\">DespairWear t-shirts<\/a>. I think I&#8217;m going to have to go get one of these <a href=\"http:\/\/us.st12.yimg.com\/us.st.yimg.com\/I\/demotivators_2048_9568725\">blogging mugs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Warning: a little cynicism goes a long way, so pace yourself! And have a great weekend. No irony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s just something about a witty, jaundiced point of view that warms the cockles of this ex-New Yorker&rsquo;s heart. When we moved to Vermont from the city, I bought Josie a mug that said, &#8220;Please talk faster, I&rsquo;m from NY.&#8221; She used it. So imagine my delight when Sharyn November posted a link on Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}