{"id":87614019,"date":"2006-03-22T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614019"},"modified":"2006-03-24T12:12:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T20:12:18","slug":"hey-for-30-i-can-choke-a-stuffed-animal-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614019","title":{"rendered":"Hey, for $30, I can choke a stuffed animal, too&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or is the &#8220;USB Memory Drive In A {fill in the blank}&#8221; phenomenon getting a little old?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously: $41.77 (plus shipping for another $14) for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekstuff4u.com\/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&#038;products_id=318\">A 128MB USB Memory Drive in A Plush Crocodile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could probably buy a small stuffed crocodile for about $4.00, and cram a $20 dollar USB drive down its throat.<\/p>\n<p>I have no problem with the USB drives that look like other things (like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/gadgets\/tools\/6b3b\/\">Swiss Army Knives<\/a>, or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.i4u.com\/section-viewarticle-14.html\">Watches<\/a>), but c&#8217;mon.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ty.com\/BeanieBabies_home\">Beanie Babies<\/a> folks are behind this, somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or is the &#8220;USB Memory Drive In A {fill in the blank}&#8221; phenomenon getting a little old? Seriously: $41.77 (plus shipping for another $14) for A 128MB USB Memory Drive in A Plush Crocodile I could probably buy a small stuffed crocodile for about $4.00, and cram a $20 dollar USB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87614019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87614019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87614019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87614019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87614019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87614019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}