{"id":31855,"date":"2024-02-07T07:49:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T13:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31855"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:04:34","slug":"subtext-sissy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/07\/subtext-sissy\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtext: Sissy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what to make of this summary:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2024\/02\/06\/country-singer-toby-keith-reportedly-dies-after-battle-with-cancer\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/tksc.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The singer <b>crafted an identity around his macho, pro-American swagger<\/b> and wrote songs that fans loved to hear in his three decades in country music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230;. he was not authentically macho?  Not authentically pro-American?  A sissy because a real man doesn&#8217;t die of cancer at 62?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m reading too much into this, but probably not.  This clever wordsmith (or AI trained by clever wordsmiths) is making a point.<\/p>\n<p>But never mind.  Onto the real news.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2024\/02\/06\/flashback-taylor-swift-discusses-being-signed-toby-keiths-label-rising-star-2005\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/tkts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFfQDqY6mC4?si=KySNu29zGLT5paAz\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Probably the best advice I&#8217;ve gotten in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure what to make of this summary: The singer crafted an identity around his macho, pro-American swagger and wrote songs that fans loved to hear in his three decades in country music. So&#8230;. he was not authentically macho? Not authentically pro-American? A sissy because a real man doesn&#8217;t die of cancer at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855","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=31855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31859,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31855\/revisions\/31859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}