{"id":141,"date":"2003-11-22T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2003-11-22T14:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/11\/22\/monotronics-is-for-losers\/"},"modified":"2003-11-22T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2003-11-22T14:15:40","slug":"monotronics-is-for-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/11\/22\/monotronics-is-for-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"Monotronics is for losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a205'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten three calls trying to hawk stuff to homeowners since 9 this morning.  The third made me crack up: &#8220;This is Tony from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickmba.com\/law\/corporation\/corporate-veil\/\">Monotronics<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Which, once I&#8217;d gotten over the Pynchonesque name and asked the guy what it was, he said &#8220;It&#8217;s a home security system&#8221;.  Of course it is, with a name like that.  But no thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten three calls trying to hawk stuff to homeowners since 9 this morning. The third made me crack up: &#8220;This is Tony from Monotronics&#8220;. Which, once I&#8217;d gotten over the Pynchonesque name and asked the guy what it was, he said &#8220;It&#8217;s a home security system&#8221;. Of course it is, with a name like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}