{"id":16853,"date":"2017-09-09T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T22:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16853"},"modified":"2017-09-09T17:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T22:43:32","slug":"do-not-confuse-coney-dog-with-these-imposters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/09\/do-not-confuse-coney-dog-with-these-imposters\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Confuse Coney Dog With These Imposters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might remember, gentle reader, my cat <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/nicknaming-him-when-hes-down\/\" target=\"_new\">was recently fitted with a Edwardian collar after surgery<\/a>.  He spent a couple days sequestered in my office and went a little stir crazy, so we let him out and took off the collar since he wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the stitches.<\/p>\n<p>Well, with the collar off, he found them and irritated his surgery site, so he&#8217;s back in the cone of shame.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just as a reminder, we call him by many appellations now, but remember, he&#8217;s still the Big Bopper.  Do not confuse him for someone else.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"4\"><strong>The Real Thing<\/strong><\/font>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/roark224.jpg\" height=\"224\"><br \/><em>The Big Bopper<\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"4\"><strong>Not to be confused with:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ming.jpg\"><br \/><em>Ming the Merciless<\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/triceratops.jpg\"><br \/><em>A Triceratops<\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/weirdal.jpg\"><br \/><em>&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic<br \/>in the &#8220;Dare to be Stupid&#8221; video<\/em> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/doctorbong.jpg\"><br \/><em>Marvel Villain <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Bong\" target=\"_new\">Doctor Bong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although, to be honest, when he scratches the cone in the bed in the middle of the night, he sounds like Doctor Bong.<\/p>\n<p>He gets the stitches out in a couple of days, at which point we will have to go back to our regularly scripted humor at his expense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might remember, gentle reader, my cat was recently fitted with a Edwardian collar after surgery. He spent a couple days sequestered in my office and went a little stir crazy, so we let him out and took off the collar since he wasn&#8217;t paying attention to the stitches. Well, with the collar off, [&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-16853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853","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=16853"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16864,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions\/16864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}