{"id":8001,"date":"2003-05-06T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T09:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8001"},"modified":"2003-05-06T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2003-05-06T09:19:23","slug":"asimo-can-i-get-a-woot-woot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8001","title":{"rendered":"Asimo: Can I Get a Woot-Woot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/asimo.jpeg\" align=\"left\">Okay, so the story on the Honda \/ CarMax deal was an April Fool&#8217;s joke, but it wasn&#8217;t totally out of the realm of possibility, as shown recently in Japan, where little Asimo got a gig as a $5.25\/hr wage earner in a Tokyo department store. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\">Reuters<\/a>, the Asimo started off last week as a store clerk <i>apprentice<\/i> for customer services, showing people to the elevator and helping promote products. Apparently even a machine worth at least $50,000 has to work hyr<b>*<\/b> way up to full store clerk. <\/p>\n<p> <font size=\"small\"><b>*<\/b> hyr is my new gender neutral 3rd-person possessive pronoun for animate objects. Other suggestions are welcome.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronouns for Gender-Indistinct Artificial Animate Objects<\/p>\n<p> Singular<\/p>\n<p> 3rd: hy hyr hyrs hyrself<\/p>\n<p> Plural<\/p>\n<p> 3rd: thy thym thyrs thymselves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}