{"id":30342,"date":"2022-09-19T05:55:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30342"},"modified":"2022-09-19T05:55:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:55:11","slug":"i-dont-understand-the-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/19\/i-dont-understand-the-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Understand The Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this column about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/sports\/bears\/ct-chicago-bears-green-bay-packers-aaron-rodgers-justin-fields-matt-eberflus-20220919-be7xx2s5rrcvbpl53tccmu3dgm-story.html#nt=pf-double%20chain~sports-top-curated-stories~flex%20feature~curated~sports-story-1~BE7XX2S5RRCVBPL53TCCMU3DGM~1~2~1~9~art%20yes\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the Bears doing what the Bears do<\/a>, we get this simile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 27-10 loss to the Green Bay Packers landed like a cement pillar to the gut.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am not entirely sure in what circumstances one takes a cement pillar to the gut.  While skateboarding, and you hit one of those &#8220;don&#8217;t drive here&#8221; pillars?<\/p>\n<p>Because nobody, not even in Chicago, is going to pick up a freaking pillar and hit you with it.  And if you&#8217;re on foot, other parts of you are likely to impact any pillar you run into.<\/p>\n<p>Metaphors: Leave them to the professionals, children.  Not that many remain who are qualified to handle them, and probably none in the papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this column about the Bears doing what the Bears do, we get this simile: A 27-10 loss to the Green Bay Packers landed like a cement pillar to the gut. I am not entirely sure in what circumstances one takes a cement pillar to the gut. While skateboarding, and you hit one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30342","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=30342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30343,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30342\/revisions\/30343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}