{"id":15506,"date":"2016-07-18T05:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T10:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15506"},"modified":"2016-08-28T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T23:58:16","slug":"the-repressed-memories-of-my-beautiful-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/18\/the-repressed-memories-of-my-beautiful-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Repressed Memories of My Beautiful Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re sitting in the parking lot of a water park in southwest Missouri which features a water slide that starts where you&#8217;re standing on a trap door or something at then you drop into water thrills of some sort, but my mind is say &#8220;Nope&#8221; far before that.  The attraction is called Kaupau or K&#8217;Pau (Heart and Slide) or something like that, and so I say to my beautiful wife, &#8220;It reminds me of <em>Kung Pow: Legend of the Fist<\/em>.&#8221;  My poor, dear wife pleads cluelessness, as she sometimes does to my allusions or my digressions where I talk about George Burns improving my understanding of Kierkegaard,  But, my dear, I made you watch that movie.  She doesn&#8217;t remember.  Then I show her the trailer on my phone.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GXrAYdSeWY8?rel=0&amp;controls=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Throughout which she laughs, and she says she remembers, although not as clearly as I do when we watched it in our house in Casinoport (you, gentle reader, might not remember the order of homes mentioned in this blog, but it&#8217;s Casinoport > Old Trees > Nogglestead).  It was the sort of dumb comedy that I enjoyed but my sophisticated wife, erm, tolerates, sometimes, back in the day, because I like them.<\/p>\n<p>But she laughs throughout the above trailer because <em>now she has studied martial arts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because now she can appreciate the fighting style the cow uses?<\/p>\n<p>Because now she can recognize the techniques the baby uses?<\/p>\n<p>No, because now she can see all the funny bits from the movie <em>which also appear in the trailer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Which is how I got her to watch the film fifteen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m going to seize this opportunity to review the entire film with her again.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Yes, I did get the title wrong in my conversation with my wife.  But it&#8217;s been over a decade since I saw the film, so there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re sitting in the parking lot of a water park in southwest Missouri which features a water slide that starts where you&#8217;re standing on a trap door or something at then you drop into water thrills of some sort, but my mind is say &#8220;Nope&#8221; far before that. The attraction is called Kaupau or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}