{"id":26212,"date":"2020-05-15T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26212"},"modified":"2020-05-14T15:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T20:58:36","slug":"i-have-been-on-the-internet-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/i-have-been-on-the-internet-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have Been On The Internet Too Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I got an email with an interesting subject line:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cookingwithcougars1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Cooking with the Cougars?  I haven&#8217;t gotten many emails like that lately.  So I opened it:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cookingwithcougars2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And I thought, <em>Wait a minute, they&#8217;re not old enough to be cougars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then I looked at the return address: President, Alumni Association <siuealumni@siue.edu>.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, because I&#8217;m a supporter of WSIE, I&#8217;ve been added to the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, home of the Cougars, Alumni Association mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say whoever crafted that subject line probably saw a pretty good email-opening response.<\/p>\n<p>(Aside: Does mentioning that I support a public radio station count as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/she-hit-me-right-in-the-fissure\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">showing off all your wealth<\/a>?  Sorry, I am going to spend a lot of time in the next few weeks ruminanting on this&#8211;<em>ruminanting<\/em>, of course, means chewing on the same weed of thought over and over again even though you&#8217;re not getting much nourishment from it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got an email with an interesting subject line: Cooking with the Cougars? I haven&#8217;t gotten many emails like that lately. So I opened it: And I thought, Wait a minute, they&#8217;re not old enough to be cougars. Then I looked at the return address: President, Alumni Association . Somehow, because I&#8217;m a supporter [&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-26212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212","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=26212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26215,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26212\/revisions\/26215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}