{"id":29675,"date":"2022-03-24T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29675"},"modified":"2022-03-24T06:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:37:06","slug":"weird-how-i-know-the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/24\/weird-how-i-know-the-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird, How I Know The Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday, I found myself watching Steven Wright&#8217;s first appearance on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4GGyQNMPDkk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know how I got to that.  Did I go to YouTube for something else and see that on the front page?  Did a blog post it?  I couldn&#8217;t tell you.<\/p>\n<p>What I can tell you is that Wilder borrowed a joke from that routine <a href=\"https:\/\/wilderwealthywise.com\/beer-hangovers-and-the-end-of-the-party\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The world is a really big place. Oh, sure, sometimes people say (when they run into a coincidence) that it\u2019s a small world, but my standard response to that is, \u201clet\u2019s see you paint it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That alignment is <em>interesting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Does Google know I read Wilder every day, so it presented me with the source of the joke?  Does Wilder read the same blogs I do and see the same post with the embedded video?  Did everyone on YouTube get Steven Wright presented yesterday?  Or is it just a little mind trying to detect patterns in mere coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>When conspiracy theories become fact, print the conspiracy theories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So yesterday, I found myself watching Steven Wright&#8217;s first appearance on The Tonight Show: I don&#8217;t even know how I got to that. Did I go to YouTube for something else and see that on the front page? Did a blog post it? I couldn&#8217;t tell you. What I can tell you is that Wilder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29675","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=29675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29677,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29675\/revisions\/29677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}