{"id":2141,"date":"2025-06-07T03:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T03:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:50:21","slug":"my-laptop-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/my-laptop-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"My Laptop Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">The doorbell rings. It\u2019s here! The new laptop I bought online a few days ago. I am so excited. It\u2019s the latest model, with all the bells and whistles I need, and I got it for a song.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">I retrieve the package, open the box, and look inside. Something\u2019s not right. There\u2019s no laptop!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, I see a brick taped to the inside of the box, apparently to add weight, and a folded sheet of paper.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">The paper is a photo of the laptop I bought. In big black letters it says: Here\u2019s your new laptop, sucker. You got scammed!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">100-word microfiction, a drabble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doorbell rings. It\u2019s here! The new laptop I bought online a few days ago. I am so excited. It\u2019s the latest model, with all the bells and whistles I need, and I got it for a song.&nbsp; I retrieve the package, open the box, and look inside. Something\u2019s not right. There\u2019s no laptop! Instead, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","tag-drabble"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/My-Laptop-Surprise.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twistytales.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}