{"id":1311,"date":"2016-05-30T13:46:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2016-05-30T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T12:54:26","slug":"automatic-generated-birthday-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/automatic-generated-birthday-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic generated birthday wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/automatic-generated-birthday-wishes\/happy-birthday\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1316\" src=\"http:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/happybirthday-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Happy birthday\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/happybirthday-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/happybirthday.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A few days ago I celebrated my birthday. During the day, I received several birthday wishes through different media. This included several e-mails from both friends and different companies. Getting greetings is something I appreciate, but what is the point of getting auto generated greetings? This comes down to what the meaning of sending a greeting to someone is. Essentially the sender is showing friendliness and respect. However, I always had trouble appreciating greetings from a machine and found these kinds of greetings to be an illusion. Clearly no one is actually greeting you, it\u2019s simply a scheduled job fully automated and executed by a machine like any other automated task. Two of the auto-generated messages I received were even identically since both companies happen to use the same e-mail provider. This strengthens the feeling of \u2018industrialized\u2019 greetings. The only plus is that sometimes these auto-generated birthday greetings will contain a coupon code or link to some special offer or gift even though this was not the case this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I celebrated my birthday. During the day, I received several birthday wishes through different media. This included several e-mails from both friends and different companies. Getting greetings is something I appreciate, but what is the point of getting auto generated greetings? This comes down to what the meaning of sending a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd-fellow-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bornoe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}