{"id":2638,"date":"2005-09-02T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2017-12-31T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T23:10:51","slug":"inappropriate-metaphor-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/02\/inappropriate-metaphor-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Inappropriate Metaphor of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a fundraising plea junk mail from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Research Program of the American Health Assistance Foundation, of whom I&#8217;ve never heard before and to whom I will never send any money whatsoever:<\/p>\n<p><center><b><u>Major news in the research on Alzheimer&#8217;s<\/u><\/b>:<br \/>\n<i>Researchers funded by Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Research including TWO Nobel prize winners&#8211;have made breakthrough discoveries that may signla the end of Alzheimer&#8217;s reign of terror!<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Alzheimer&#8217;s <i>reign of terror<\/i>?  Lord, love a duck, poorly written, poorly metaphored&#8230;  I say we make it a trifecta by making it poorly funded, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a fundraising plea junk mail from the Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Research Program of the American Health Assistance Foundation, of whom I&#8217;ve never heard before and to whom I will never send any money whatsoever: Major news in the research on Alzheimer&#8217;s: Researchers funded by Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Research including TWO Nobel prize winners&#8211;have made breakthrough discoveries [&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-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","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=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19260,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/19260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}