{"id":1779,"date":"2016-01-19T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T06:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2016-01-19T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T06:50:32","slug":"the-seat-thiefs-rationale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-seat-thiefs-rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seat Thief's Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is even the <em>motivation<\/em> for stealing a bicycle seat? How much can you hock it for?<\/p>\n<p>I think I would forgive it if some poor soul had stood here after glancing around furtively to confirm that the train cops were absent, and computed: &quot;Taking this seat will ruin the evening commute of some rich person, and likely the eight commutes after that, but he (probably <em>he<\/em>) can take it, whereas I need to sell this seat to get the money to buy the drugs to sell the drugs to get the money to buy the bread to feed my starving family\u2014<em>clearly<\/em> a Kaldor\u2013Hicks improvement, and after my drug-dealing startup takes off, I'll be sure to spend the occasional Monday evening replacing missing seats at a train station bike rack not unlike this one.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is even the motivation for stealing a bicycle seat? How much can you hock it for? I think I would forgive it if some poor soul had stood here after glancing around furtively to confirm that the train cops &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/the-seat-thiefs-rationale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}