{"id":853,"date":"2008-03-17T08:51:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2008-03-17T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T15:51:10","slug":"dear-kid-fuck-you-love-mattel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":""Dear kid. Fuck you. Love, Mattel""},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep meaning to dig through all my back issues one of these days to compile a stack of all the random nineties issues where I had letters printed, and then to scan those letters in and post them, in order to mock my own pathetic teenage nerdity–not that it was pathetic for me to be a nerd as a teen; rather that I did a pathetic job of writing what I thought to be especially erudite and clever letters.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s a great story<\/a> of one hopeful seven-year-old’s dreams dashed to pieces at the feet of Mattel corporate policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep meaning to dig through all my back issues one of these days to compile a stack of all the random nineties issues where I had letters printed, and then to scan those letters in and post them, in order to mock my own pathetic teenage nerdity–not that it was pathetic for me to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}