{"id":25066,"date":"2012-01-04T10:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/destroying-a-village-or-violin-in-order-to-save-it.html"},"modified":"2012-01-04T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:11:19","slug":"destroying-a-village-or-violin-in-order-to-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/destroying-a-village-or-violin-in-order-to-save-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Destroying a village (or violin) in order to save it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the dangers of policies that involved irrevocable steps. In this case, PayPal&#39;s policy on (in some cases) destroying a disputed item as proof that the contentious buyer isn&#39;t profiting from its use.  I&#39;m sure there are cases where that makes perfect sense. An antique violin is <i>not<\/i> one of them. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.regretsy.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2Fbourg.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.regretsy.com\/2012\/01\/03\/from-the-mailbag-27\/'>From the Mailbag<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrom the Mailbag. Posted on January 3, 2012 by Helen Killer Filed in Mailbag. As you know, I have had my share of issues with Paypal recently, and while I appreciate the effort they made to do the rig&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the dangers of policies that involved irrevocable steps. In this case, PayPal&#39;s policy on (in some cases) destroying a disputed item as proof that the contentious buyer isn&#39;t profiting from its use. I&#39;m sure there are cases where that makes perfect sense. An antique violin is not one of them. #ddtb Embedded Link From &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/destroying-a-village-or-violin-in-order-to-save-it.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Destroying a village (or violin) in order to save it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18431,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/unblogged-bits-mon-6-sep-10-0530.html","url_meta":{"origin":25066,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon.  6-Sep-10 0530)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Sep-10 5:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... SEB Mailbag: Chain Mail from Ben Stein. Kind of. - I think I've received this one before. At any rate, a nicely lucid response, even if I suspect the person who sent the original\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20595,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/unblogged-bits-tue-29-mar-11-1130.html","url_meta":{"origin":25066,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 29-Mar-11 1130)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Mar-11 11:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Mailbag Douchebag - Some people seem to seek out things to be offended over. Looking at the cartoon referenced, it appears that Bors' grievous offense was the one bit about rating the hosts\/bread\/wafers at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":25066,"position":2},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":25066,"position":3},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). Anyway, if you've ever wanted to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/les-jenkins.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31749,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/les-is-my-kind-of-atheist.html","url_meta":{"origin":25066,"position":4},"title":"Les is my kind of atheist","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Dec-12 8:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Les is an atheist. I am not.And yet, I find myself at least 98.47% in agreement with him on all of the below, and conversely against Mr. (and, perhaps, Mrs.) Ripka. \u00a0Because I've taken the time to know Les, and I haven't assumed up front the worst about him, and,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/happy-blogaversary-to-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":25066,"position":5},"title":"Happy Blogaversary to Me","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Aug-15 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"My blog is fourteen years old today. \u00a0Well, yesterday, actually. It was kind of a busy day. I started my blog, alas, after the birth of my daughter (who was a year and a half old then), but just in time (also alas) for 9\/11. And it's been running long\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/keep-calm-and-blog-on.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}