{"id":26683,"date":"2020-08-12T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26683"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T14:01:36","slug":"the-products-suggest-permanence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/12\/the-products-suggest-permanence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Products Suggest Permanence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Facebook feed is full of ads for masks and news of people who are making masks.  My mother-in-law has ordered a pile of masks for my beautiful wife and children.  Springfield has a mask ordinance until October 15; Nixa and Republic do not, so Nixa and Republic get a lot more of my business these days.<\/p>\n<p>Although some masks are tempting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/fronttowardsenemymask.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I refuse to buy a permanent mask.  Whenever I need to go to something in Springfield, I have a single workshop dust mask hanging from one of the shifters in my truck.  I slap that on at the doors of the places where I must go that require masks.  I refuse to put it on in the car, and I don&#8217;t want to own a couple dozen little bits of fabric in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Because this is only temporary, ainna?  Or will the proliferation of masks make it easier to make the current measures of dubious necessity and efficacy <em>permanent<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, all right, I must admit I did buy a mask to coordinate with my outfit for one of my required bi-weekly trips into Springfield.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gimask.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This is the Internet.  You are free to believe that I do not, in fact, wear a balaclava to my martial arts school.  Or you can believe that I do because although the city of Springfield might have mandated that I look silly, <em>it did not limit the amount of silly I will look<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font>  Thanks for the link, <a href=\"https:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/do-want.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Borepatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Facebook feed is full of ads for masks and news of people who are making masks. My mother-in-law has ordered a pile of masks for my beautiful wife and children. Springfield has a mask ordinance until October 15; Nixa and Republic do not, so Nixa and Republic get a lot more of my business [&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-26683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26683","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=26683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26724,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26683\/revisions\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}