{"id":3316,"date":"2006-09-09T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2017-12-14T13:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:48:21","slug":"metaphor-failure-metaphor-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/09\/metaphor-failure-metaphor-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphor Failure! Metaphor Failure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/91215971042BAA1A862571E300159C28?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">story<\/a> about how Macy&#8217;s will revitalize downtown when its preceding Famous-Barr gave up and lie curled in a fetal position at the corner of 6th and Olive, we have a gusher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is exactly the <b>punch in the arm<\/b> downtown needed,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think this is just the beginning. Famous-Barr had been here for years. Then Macy&#8217;s took it over and, boom, they brought it back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you have it.  Macy&#8217;s is giving downtown a punch in the arm.  Sorta like the bigger kids in gym class.  No word on when Macy&#8217;s will <i>demand the lunch money<\/i> of downtown, but all corporations do, sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story about how Macy&#8217;s will revitalize downtown when its preceding Famous-Barr gave up and lie curled in a fetal position at the corner of 6th and Olive, we have a gusher: &#8220;This is exactly the punch in the arm downtown needed,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I think this is just the beginning. Famous-Barr had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","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=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18563,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/18563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}