{"id":351,"date":"2003-08-11T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T02:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/sweet-irony\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T16:36:43","slug":"sweet-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/sweet-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent our little gift from G.W., &#8220;Tax relief for America&#8217;s families&#8221; as it said on the check, to my bank last week. It was returned back to me on Saturday with a note, &#8220;Payable 2 parties &#8211; cannot deposit to single&#8221;. Turns out that because of the Patriot Act, they need a form filled out with The Wife&#8217;s signature before they can take the check (the account is in my name) even though we both endorsed it.  I find it very amusing that the administration that&#8217;s trying to get me to spend and be a good little consumer is keeping me from doing so with it&#8217;s useless, overly paranoid bureaucratic red tape. It&#8217;s a good thing they&#8217;re here to protect me from myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent our little gift from G.W., &#8220;Tax relief for America&#8217;s families&#8221; as it said on the check, to my bank last week. It was returned back to me on Saturday with a note, &#8220;Payable 2 parties &#8211; cannot deposit to single&#8221;. Turns out that because of the Patriot Act, they need a form filled <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/sweet-irony\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-politics","category-5-id","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-5F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}