{"id":190,"date":"2005-04-01T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmayhaps.wordpress.com\/2005\/04\/01\/please-try-your-luck-again-sucker"},"modified":"2005-04-01T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T17:48:00","slug":"please-try-your-luck-again-sucker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/01\/please-try-your-luck-again-sucker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Please try your luck again &#8230; sucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAfter only 2 wins in 36 cups in the Tim Horton&#8217;s Roll up the Rim to Win Contest, I&#8217;m getting a little tired of seeing the phrase &#8220;Please Play Again&#8221;. It would be good if they could vary it a bit &#8211; perhaps throw in the occasional &#8220;Play Again Please&#8221; or &#8220;Again, Please Play&#8221;, or &#8220;Winner &#8211; GMC Envoy&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps it is the tone of the message that gets to me most. Sure, it has the &#8220;Please&#8217;, but all they are really requesting is that I give them more money. There&#8217;s no sympathy in that message. All they want is the cold, hard cash. The Mars bar that I ate today, while not bumping my winning statistics any higher, at least had a slightly better message of &#8220;Sorry, Better Luck Next Time&#8221;. Where&#8217;s the Sorry from Timmy&#8217;s? After all, it&#8217;s a Canadian company and we are known for saying Sorry all the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf only Mars made sweet sugary tea.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"2005_03_01_archive.html\">Previously (it completes me)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After only 2 wins in 36 cups in the Tim Horton&#8217;s Roll up the Rim to Win Contest, I&#8217;m getting a little tired of seeing the phrase &#8220;Please Play Again&#8221;. It would be good if they could vary it a bit &#8211; perhaps throw in the occasional &#8220;Play Again Please&#8221; or &#8220;Again, Please Play&#8221;, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vfXi-34","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}