{"id":1605,"date":"2006-08-10T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/freecycle-dilemma\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T22:03:00","slug":"freecycle-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/freecycle-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Freecycle Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined New Orleans&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecycle.org\">freecycle<\/a> group a few months ago and have used it to pass on a bunch of things&#8230; from fence boards to packages of unused hotel soap to shoes.  I posted some baby boy items that were given to me from a neighbor&#8230; a cap, bathing suit, blue crib blanket, etc.  Quickly after posting, an interested party emailed me.<\/p>\n<p>But I am unsettled over her email.  For one, her email name is something like &#8220;Resaler Cindy,&#8221; which makes me think that she may be trying to profit from freecycle, which bothers me.  Second, she says she wants it &#8220;for a friend,&#8221; but did so in all lowercase letters with no punctuation and a typo.  I have no problem with quick, un-punctuated, lowercase notes from friends, but my goodness&#8230; when it is a formal request to be given an item for free, maybe writing a sentence would be good form!  She&#8217;s not ee cummings for crying out loud.  Sheesh.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, when I&#8217;ve received messages that give me pause, the person has been flaky and pick-up has been a pain.  So I initially thought I&#8217;d just skip her message and go to the next person.  But no one else has responded!  What to do&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined New Orleans&#8217; freecycle group a few months ago and have used it to pass on a bunch of things&#8230; from fence boards to packages of unused hotel soap to shoes. I posted some baby boy items that were given to me from a neighbor&#8230; a cap, bathing suit, blue crib blanket, etc. Quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}