{"id":25893,"date":"2020-03-26T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25893"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:40:58","slug":"today-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/26\/today-i-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0711058\/?ref_=tt_cl_t8\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sledge Hammer<\/a> was born in St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>(I learned this because <a href=\"https:\/\/adaptivecurmudgeon.com\/2020\/03\/25\/what-are-we-learning\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adaptive Curmudgeon<\/a> had a post today capped with a clip from the 2008 film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burn_After_Reading\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Burn After Reading<\/em><\/a> that featured Sledge Hammer! and the Farmers Insurance pitchman, so I looked him up on IMDB and learned that he&#8217;s been in a lot of other television shows and films since the television comedy that I know him best for.)<\/p>\n<p>Certainly the IMDB entry says he&#8217;s known for other things.<\/p>\n<p>But come on.  He&#8217;s Sledge Hammer!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UGYKU7mbv74\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trust me, I know what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sledge Hammer was born in St. Louis. (I learned this because Adaptive Curmudgeon had a post today capped with a clip from the 2008 film Burn After Reading that featured Sledge Hammer! and the Farmers Insurance pitchman, so I looked him up on IMDB and learned that he&#8217;s been in a lot of other television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893","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=25893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25895,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25893\/revisions\/25895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}