{"id":11531,"date":"2014-06-19T22:39:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T05:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11531"},"modified":"2014-06-19T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T05:39:15","slug":"i-cant-believe-this-exists-washboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/06\/19\/i-cant-believe-this-exists-washboard\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t believe this exists: Washboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to call this segment as the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot File.<\/p>\n<p>A company will mail\u00a0you a roll of quarters or two for a fee.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$10 worth of quarters costs $14.99 per month<\/li>\n<li>$20 worth of quarters costs $26.99 per month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, f*c* it, I&#8217;m gonna say this: WHAT THE F*C*!<\/p>\n<p>When I still live in an apartment, I saved up quarters. It was not that hard. As a matter of fact out of habit I\u00a0am still saving up quarters and other coins.<\/p>\n<p>Faith in humanity, fading slowly&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14092\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Washboard-WTF-10-dollars.jpg\" alt=\"Washboard WTF 10 dollars\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14093\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Washboard-WTF-20-dollars.jpg\" alt=\"Washboard WTF 20 dollars\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=7918838\" target=\"_blank\">Comments<\/a>\u00a0at Hacker News.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zpower\/status\/479785688666505216\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Ziegler (@zpower)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a startup sells $10 in quarters for $14.99. I am peering into the void of my own soul and questioning why we are here washboard.co<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2014\/06\/19\/washboard\" target=\"_blank\">John Gruber&#8217;s take<\/a>\u00a0on Washboard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If today being National Martini Day hasn\u2019t driven you to pour a stiff drink yet, this will. Jiminy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to call this segment as the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot File. A company will mail\u00a0you a roll of quarters or two for a fee. $10 worth of quarters costs $14.99 per month $20 worth of quarters costs $26.99 per month Oh, f*c* it, I&#8217;m gonna say this: WHAT THE F*C*! When I still live &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/06\/19\/i-cant-believe-this-exists-washboard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe this exists: Washboard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[4],"tags":[578,1418,1537,2818,936,3173,3260],"class_list":["post-11531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-hipsters","tag-internet","tag-startup","tag-tech","tag-web","tag-wtf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2ZZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}