{"id":282,"date":"2010-12-22T23:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T04:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2010-12-22T23:13:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T04:13:53","slug":"are-you-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/22\/are-you-a-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a human?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from Ebay saying my password had been compromised and so my account had been disabled.\u00a0 I spent a couple of hours trying to straighten it out, and in the process, I had an online chat with their help desk.<\/p>\n<p>I kept wondering if the agent, &#8220;Sheryl&#8221;, was a real person or just some program on Ebay&#8217;s web servers.  So I asked her &#8220;which comes first, Halloween or Thanksgiving?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She got it right&#8230; on the second guess.  Her answer, though, proved to me that she was not a <em>bot<\/em>.\u00a0 My guess was that she was in a call center in India.  However, I suppose she could&#8217;ve been Canadian &#8211; their Thanksgiving is in October.\u00a0 But I am betting on India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from Ebay saying my password had been compromised and so my account had been disabled.\u00a0 I spent a couple of hours trying to straighten it out, and in the process, I had an online chat with their help desk. I kept wondering if the agent, &#8220;Sheryl&#8221;, was a real person or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madness","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}