{"id":9037,"date":"2014-08-29T19:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T23:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:06","slug":"open-letter-to-pandora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/08\/open-letter-to-pandora\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Pandora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Pandora.\u00a0 When I skipped past <em>Our Love is Better Than Chocolate<\/em>, how did you know whether I meant &#8220;I have heard that song plenty enough times&#8221; vs &#8220;I generally dislike Sarah McLachlan?&#8221;\u00a0 I do not trust that your algorithm understands the basis of my binary choice.<\/p>\n<p>After my skipping that song, you are likely to decide that I should never hear Sarah again, which will be the wrong outcome.*\u00a0 If nothing else, in your capitalist effort to provide a First World Solution, you will only have created a First World Problem.\u00a0 Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>____________________<\/p>\n<h5>* On the other hand, I have un-liked The Wailin&#8217; Jennys something like 7 or 8 times, but they keep popping up, so what gives?\u00a0 Are you their cousin or something?<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Pandora.\u00a0 When I skipped past Our Love is Better Than Chocolate, how did you know whether I meant &#8220;I have heard that song plenty enough times&#8221; vs &#8220;I generally dislike Sarah McLachlan?&#8221;\u00a0 I do not trust that your algorithm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/08\/open-letter-to-pandora\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-putts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9037"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9037\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}