{"id":16664,"date":"2017-06-23T17:13:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16664"},"modified":"2017-06-23T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:13:48","slug":"everybodys-trying-too-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/23\/everybodys-trying-too-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody&#8217;s Trying Too Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent set of full color mailers, which I&#8217;m plumbing far too much for blogfodder these days, we have two presumably competing dining options.<\/p>\n<p>First up, we have a pizza designed to taste like a burger:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/baconcheddarburger.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Then, <em>in the same collection of advertisements<\/em>, we come to an ad for a burger designed to taste like a pizza:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/pizzaslider.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My lord, all I want is fast food that tastes better than the cardboard box it comes in.  I would, however, prefer that you not get your chocolate in my peanut butter.<\/p>\n<p>I am pretty sure I was a curmudgeon at fourteen years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent set of full color mailers, which I&#8217;m plumbing far too much for blogfodder these days, we have two presumably competing dining options. First up, we have a pizza designed to taste like a burger: Then, in the same collection of advertisements, we come to an ad for a burger designed to taste [&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-16664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664","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=16664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16666,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions\/16666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}