{"id":27607,"date":"2021-01-31T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27607"},"modified":"2021-01-31T06:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:29:14","slug":"this-town-needs-an-anemone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/31\/this-town-needs-an-anemone\/","title":{"rendered":"This Town Needs An Anemone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher I know on Facebook who once offered me straight whiskey (I&#8217;m not saying that all teachers drink straight whiskey; all I am saying is that the only people who have offered me straight whiskey were teachers) posted &#8220;This town needs an&#8230;.&#8221; on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I once made a GIPHY gif of Jack Nicholson from the Tim Burton <em>Batman<\/em> movie with the caption &#8220;This town needs an anemone.&#8221;  Or maybe &#8220;an anemone.&#8221;  The whole story is <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/09\/in-my-defense-i-pronounced-it-correctly\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> (to which the gif is incidental).  But the gif has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe the format of the URL changed.  Or it got taken down by GIPHY because it has copyrighted material in it.  Maybe it was disinformation because it had a pun in the caption instead of the actual quote.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s what I got searching for &#8220;this town need <em>[sic]<\/em> an anemone <em>[spelled correctly and pronounced correctly these days as I explained in the earlier post]<\/em>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/peopleneedhope.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A gif of Joe Biden saying &#8220;People Need Hope&#8221; as the top result <em>and<\/em> magnified in the bigger rotating player to the side.<\/p>\n<p>I will leave you to speculate why.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I proffer to you, as I did my teacher friend, this response to her initial query:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thistownneedsanemone.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teacher I know on Facebook who once offered me straight whiskey (I&#8217;m not saying that all teachers drink straight whiskey; all I am saying is that the only people who have offered me straight whiskey were teachers) posted &#8220;This town needs an&#8230;.&#8221; on Facebook. You know, I once made a GIPHY gif of Jack [&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-27607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27607","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=27607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27609,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27607\/revisions\/27609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}