{"id":1245,"date":"2008-07-15T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/the-blue-screen-of-death\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T03:00:49","slug":"the-blue-screen-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/the-blue-screen-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Screen of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blue-screen-of-death.jpg' title='BSOD'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/blue-screen-of-death.thumbnail.jpg' alt='BSOD' class='left' \/><\/a>People who are familiar with Windows&reg; operating systems will recognize this &#8220;blue screen of death.&#8221; I have seen it from time to time when using both home and work computers that both use the Windows OS. What threw me was this one that popped up on &#8211; wait for it &#8211; the gas pump at a Lomita (CA) Mobil station. It pumped out $2.16 worth of regular gasoline when it did this. I had to move to another pump where I completed my fill-up. <\/p>\n<p>When I checked the credit card charges later in the week, I saw that I got charged the $2.16 for the aborted sale. Weird.<\/p>\n<p>Click for a bigger view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who are familiar with Windows&reg; operating systems will recognize this &#8220;blue screen of death.&#8221; I have seen it from time to time when using both&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}