{"id":4117,"date":"2016-04-21T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2016-04-21T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T23:24:22","slug":"fun-at-dicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/04\/21\/fun-at-dicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun at Dick’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday my wife was hungry so we stopped at Dick’s.\u00a0 A sign there read, “You are being videotaped for your safety.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Totally absurd statement, video taping me is not making me safer in any significant way.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I told the employee that I did not want to be video taped, that it did not make me feel safer, and that it was an unreasonable invasion of my privacy, and I delivered these words with absolute dead pan sincerity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The employee was obviously taken back.\u00a0 But then I added…<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “Your equipment taking my image is stealing my soul”, said with the same dead pan delivery and at that point I could see he was seriously disturbed, so at that point I cracked a smile, he realized I was screwing with him, and we placed our order.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When he brought the food, I told him I was willing to license the use of my image for say $200 per frame.\u00a0 Keep in mind most video is working at 30 frames per second, that works out to around $6000 per second of video.\u00a0 Seemed reasonable enough.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday my wife was hungry so we stopped at Dick’s.\u00a0 A sign there read, “You are being videotaped for your safety.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Totally absurd statement, video taping me is not making me safer in any significant way. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}