{"id":16570,"date":"2021-03-30T21:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=16570"},"modified":"2021-03-30T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:17:55","slug":"study-hal-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/03\/30\/study-hal-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Hal: Week 39 &#8211; Online Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/peIDzR3Rddw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ahh, online shopping. What a wonderful, miraculous, and fickle thing. While trying to get the garden ready for spring, Hal noticed that his bird bath broke over the winter. He thought he caught a lucky break finding a cheap replacement online&#8230; It was only when it arrived that he discovered he&#8217;d bought a bird bath for a doll house!<\/p>\n<p>Hal was chagrined, but I had a good laugh about his mistake. I&#8217;ve done the same thing before by speeding through an item description.\u00a0Hal is too stubborn to return this one, so maybe it&#8217;ll become a candy dish. Has anyone else ordered something unexpected because they only skimmed the specifications?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re new here, welcome in! Despite his absent mind this week, Hal is, in fact, only a few weeks from getting is U-M diploma. He posts here on Tuesdays to share his experiences, but if you&#8217;d like to see the rest of the videos, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/tag\/study-hal\/\">Study Hal<\/a> tag!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahh, online shopping. What a wonderful, miraculous, and fickle thing. While trying to get the garden ready for spring, Hal noticed that his bird bath broke over the winter. He thought he caught a lucky break finding a cheap replacement online&#8230; It was only when it arrived that he discovered he&#8217;d bought a bird bath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2219,"featured_media":16571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[491,1144,322,1717,1555,1537],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16574,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570\/revisions\/16574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}