{"id":27468,"date":"2021-01-09T10:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27468"},"modified":"2021-01-08T06:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:59:28","slug":"the-2021-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/09\/the-2021-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021 Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/21\/0121\/15.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday<\/a>, Lileks gave some commentary on linkbait ads (not that your congenial host, gentle reader, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/category\/advertisements\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">would do such a thing<\/a>!), and he includes this one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/groovyhistory.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, we don&#8217;t see an attractive starlet getting a makeup touch-up.<\/p>\n<p>We see an attractive starlet getting a COVID-19 nasal swab, ainna?<\/p>\n<p>And by &#8220;we,&#8221; I mean &#8220;we old timers.&#8221;  I am not sure that children under the age of 35 can even see black and white photos at all.  Their eyes have evolved only to see color and YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Lileks gave some commentary on linkbait ads (not that your congenial host, gentle reader, would do such a thing!), and he includes this one: In 2021, we don&#8217;t see an attractive starlet getting a makeup touch-up. We see an attractive starlet getting a COVID-19 nasal swab, ainna? And by &#8220;we,&#8221; I mean &#8220;we [&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-27468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27468","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=27468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27470,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27468\/revisions\/27470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}