{"id":5873,"date":"2003-09-29T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/29\/desk\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:25","slug":"desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/29\/desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Desk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I picked up a new desk for my office. My old one was kinda small, and just didn&#8217;t have the writing surface area that I needed. Well, I get the new desk, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staples.com\/Catalog\/Browse\/sku_image.asp?PageType=1&#038;SKU=430270&#038;ImageTypeName=Enlarged&#038;ReturnURL=%2FCatalog%2FBrowse%2FSku%2Easp%3FPageType%3D1%26Sku%3D430270\">O&#8217;Sullivan Diplomat<\/a> from Staples, negotiated down to $109.99. Well, I get it home, get it set up, and while it&#8217;s nice and all, there is a decent sized gouge in the top left desk piece. No big deal, but I decide to call O&#8217;Sullivan anyway, just to see what they can do.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the end result of everything was O&#8217;Sullivan sending me, free of charge, a whole new top piece for the desk. There must be an absolutely massive mark-up on these desks if they can afford to ship a 2&#8242; x 3&#8242; desk piece so that it will arrive &#8220;within a couple of days&#8221;, to everyone who calls and asks for one.<\/p>\n<p>Weird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I picked up a new desk for my office. My old one was kinda small, and just didn&#8217;t have the writing surface area that I needed. Well, I get the new desk, the O&#8217;Sullivan Diplomat from Staples, negotiated down to $109.99. Well, I get it home, get it set up, and while it&#8217;s\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-around-the-house","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15757,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/15757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}