{"id":855,"date":"2025-07-03T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/?p=855"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T02:30:02","slug":"some-pet-peeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/some-pet-peeves\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Pet Peeves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here are a few things I&#8217;ve found annoying over the last few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;ve noticed this disturbing trend of people watching movies or videos on their phones&#8230;without headphones or earphones. In other words, you get to hear every piece of dialog in whatever they&#8217;re watching. Are we to the point now where your ability to watch whatever you want when you want it trumps my desire to not be disturbed by it?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Here&#8217;s another trend I&#8217;ve noticed: someone will say &#8220;That&#8217;s 10 times less than something else.&#8221; Huh? Multiplication (i.e. &#8220;times&#8221;) is additive, not subtractive. I don&#8217;t even know what 10 times less than something even is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Related to that is this: &#8220;This product has 80% fewer calories than brand X&#8221; or some such. Do you mean it has 20% of the calories than brand X? If so, just say it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few things I&#8217;ve found annoying over the last few months.<\/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-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}