{"id":26460,"date":"2020-06-28T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26460"},"modified":"2020-06-29T05:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T10:58:33","slug":"is-our-headline-writers-metaphoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/28\/is-our-headline-writers-metaphoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Our Headline Writers Metaphoring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> headline sez: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/history\/1969-a-wild-night-on-the-mississippi-as-the-becky-thatcher-breaks-free-and-the\/collection_0829e102-07fd-5006-9a33-b95d79d35600.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1969: A wild night on the Mississippi as the Becky Thatcher breaks free, and the Santa Maria sinks like a tub<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sanklikeatub.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I cannot conceive of how a tub sinks.  Perhaps the headline writer is a fan of the 1986 film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091541\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Money Pit<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9CJ9EDtZ2p8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just kidding.  The headline writer was probably not even born in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s just as well that the Santa Maria replica sank in 1969.  Otherwise, in 2020, someone would have to sink it for hatred and indigenous genocide donchaknow.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I probably saw <em>The Money Pit<\/em> once in the 1980s.  How I can remember that the tub sank through the floor is a miracle of teenaged neuroscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline sez: 1969: A wild night on the Mississippi as the Becky Thatcher breaks free, and the Santa Maria sinks like a tub: To be honest, I cannot conceive of how a tub sinks. Perhaps the headline writer is a fan of the 1986 film The Money Pit: Just kidding. The headline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460","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=26460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26463,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26460\/revisions\/26463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}