{"id":31527,"date":"2022-03-04T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=31527"},"modified":"2022-03-06T07:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T11:55:37","slug":"late-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/03\/04\/late-break.html","title":{"rendered":"Late break"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p>Someone messaged me at my radio FB page. I don&#8217;t know what they said. Not yet.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to humming and whirring of the vending machines in what they call the &#8220;vendeteria,&#8221; so-called because there is no caf\u00e9, only vending machines.<\/p>\n<p>And tables. Vending machines and tables.<\/p>\n<p>Vending machines can be fun to watch, the machine itself and the interaction between it and the person using it. I watched one woman insert two dollar bills, make her selection, then get a message saying the product was unavailable even though it was right there in front of her.<\/p>\n<p>That might have just been annoying but the funny part is when the machine returned her $2 &#8212; <em>in nickels!<\/em>.\u00a0 What a brave new world this is.<\/p>\n<p>I would think a vending machine is a classic setup for comedy. In the cartoon realm there are certain setups that are rich for humor: The patient on the psychiatrist&#8217;s couch. The man who walks into a bar. These setups both lead directly to a presumed interaction or conversation between individuals assumed to be on the same path or in pursuit of the same goal but with every possibility that they will in fact collide.<\/p>\n<p>The vending machine comedies I&#8217;ve witnessed lately look like fodder for the old Carol Burnett Show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone messaged me at my radio FB page. I don&#8217;t know what they said. Not yet. Listening to humming and whirring of the vending machines in what they call the &#8220;vendeteria,&#8221; so-called because there is no caf\u00e9, only vending machines. And tables. Vending machines and tables. Vending machines can be fun to watch, the machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8cv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31535,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31527\/revisions\/31535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}