{"id":29414,"date":"2022-01-04T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29414"},"modified":"2022-01-04T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T21:09:31","slug":"welcome-to-the-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/04\/welcome-to-the-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To The New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you like this, the middle part of the first half of the 21st century? <\/p>\n<p>I saw this ad whilst watching football this weekend:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0zz8r9eB1kE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those of us in the future, when this video has been removed by the owner or when YouTube re-writes its embeds again and renders three quarters of a twenty-year-old blog inscrutable (actually, I&#8217;ve only been embedding YouTube videos for about ten years, so I&#8217;ve only had to deal with dead embeds twice so far), this is an ad featuring Drew Brees, Jerome Bettis, and Jerry Rice sharing breakfast with a family of football referees, and they call Quaker Oats instant oatmeal a &#8220;superfood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You know what I call it?  <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gruel\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Gruel<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, gentle reader, the powers that be want you to think gruel is a superfood.  Please don&#8217;t riot over the prices of meat and milk when you can find them in stock.  You can grind your own grain and bark and think it&#8217;s good for you.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, alright, alright, I am trying to be a bit arch and wry here.  Full disclosure: I actually eat Quaker Oats for breakfast a couple of times a week since it&#8217;s fast, filling, and will not leave me bonking in the middle of a gym workout.  <em>But I eat meat with it.<\/em>  Bacon, to be precise.  And although bacon doesn&#8217;t make everything better, unlike what the Internet of 2014 might have told you, paired with some carbs, it&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Still, when I saw the ad, the first thing I thought was &#8220;They&#8217;re calling the food of poor people, ground grain soaked in water, a superfood now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another full disclosure: If you add the amount of water recommended on the packet, one half cup to the packet, it&#8217;s more of a porridge than a gruel.  But if you have a family to feed, you&#8217;ll add more water than that, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you like this, the middle part of the first half of the 21st century? I saw this ad whilst watching football this weekend: For those of us in the future, when this video has been removed by the owner or when YouTube re-writes its embeds again and renders three quarters of a twenty-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29414","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=29414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29416,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29414\/revisions\/29416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}