{"id":189,"date":"2021-05-10T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=189"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:58:12","slug":"open-letter-to-mr-nardi-please-stop-texting-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Mr. Nardi: please stop texting me."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Pyle Principal Christopher B Nardi,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I understand that running a middle school is a stressful job. I\u2019m sure that organizing online TAG is a pain. But my sympathy is running low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really have no issue occasionally engaging in light banter, but the sheer volume of texts is astounding. 26 different 8 Ball Pool games in one day? I\u2019m not going to deny my love of \u201cDespicable Me,\u201d but I will add that the \u201cha\u201d I replied after you sent me a barrage of minion memes was sent solely out of pity. I didn\u2019t find a single one funny; it\u2019s not Bob, Kevin or Stuart, it\u2019s you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your bobblehead collection \u2014 referred to as \u201cNardiheads\u201d in conversation \u2014 is of no interest to me. Sorry. I have AP tests to study for. I don\u2019t have time to rate them in terms of their \u201cartistic merit.\u201d I\u2019m doubtful that any museum is interested in preserving a plastic figurine of Mark Ruffalo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And no, I won\u2019t be asking \u201cmy nanny to ask my mom to ask your nanny to ask your mom to set up a playdate.\u201d There\u2019s a pandemic going on, you know I can\u2019t come over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about chatting with Akinator, or Siri, or Sprint\u2019s automated help desk? Just promise me you\u2019ll stop subjecting living humans to your spam. I\u2019m begging you, my data is completely used up for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pyle Principal Christopher B Nardi, I understand that running a middle school is a stressful job. I\u2019m sure that organizing online TAG is a pain. But my sympathy is running low. I really have no issue occasionally engaging in light banter, but the sheer volume of texts is astounding. 26 different 8 Ball Pool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therutabaga.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}