{"id":30619,"date":"2023-01-01T18:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T00:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30619"},"modified":"2023-01-01T18:49:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T00:49:26","slug":"the-world-we-live-in-today-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/01\/the-world-we-live-in-today-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"The World We Live In Today Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday evening, as I grilled our steaks for the evening, I told my beautiful wife that we might need a new chimney starter soon, as our current one is showing some buckling from its constant exposure to fire and flaming coals.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I got this ad in my Facebook feed interspersed amongst pictures of David Gilmour&#8211;for some reason, probably because I liked the official Pink Floyd page a decade ago, suddenly I see all kinds of Dave Gilmour and other Pink Floyd fan pages&#8217; posts as &#8220;Suggested for You&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/chimneystarter.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I did not <em>text<\/em> this to her.  I said this to her in passing in the kitchen as I was getting the steaks to put on the grill.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidence?  A false pattern spotted by my brain because I was looking for a pattern?  Or the truth?<\/p>\n<p>Although from the image, it might not be a chimney starter.  It looks fairly industrial.  Perhaps something for smelting metals or tempering steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday evening, as I grilled our steaks for the evening, I told my beautiful wife that we might need a new chimney starter soon, as our current one is showing some buckling from its constant exposure to fire and flaming coals. On Saturday, I got this ad in my Facebook feed interspersed amongst pictures [&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-30619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619","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=30619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30621,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30619\/revisions\/30621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}