{"id":33265,"date":"2024-11-19T07:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33265"},"modified":"2024-11-19T07:10:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:10:02","slug":"missed-it-by-a-fraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/19\/missed-it-by-a-fraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed It By A Fraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Powerline, the post is entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2024\/11\/the-high-cost-of-low-heeled-joy.php\" target=\"_new\">The high cost of low-heeled joy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know, gentle reader, <em>you<\/em> get the allusion, but I will quote the post for those who reach this site via Internet search.  I need all the Traffic I can get:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone may want to rewrite Traffic\u2019s look at the dark side of the music business (I think) in \u201cThe Low Spark of High Heeled Boys\u201d to cover Kamala Harris\u2019s presidential campaign. Something like \u201cThe High Cost of Low-Heeled Joy\u201d might work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, c&#8217;mon, man, are you even a blogger?  You could have gone with <em>The High Cost of Round-Heeled Joy<\/em> to get the Shakespearean-era allusion in there and to cast aspersions on the political candidate&#8217;s alleged sordid sexual history.  Shakespeare + Traffic in the same blog post?  The ticket to mad hits and .000000018 cents in ad revenue, baby!<\/p>\n<p>Ay, me.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I was too young to know Traffic in its heyday, but when I was a bagger&#8230;.  Oh, I&#8217;ve told that story before, the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/27\/i-am-old-enough-to-get-the-allusion\/\" target=\"_new\">last time someone on the Internet alluded to it<\/a> (probably).<\/p>\n<p>After 21 years in blogging, gentle reader, I am bound to repeat myself in my dotage.  You are very polite to keep coming back and listening politely or perhaps scrolling past grampa telling the same story <em>again<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Powerline, the post is entitled The high cost of low-heeled joy. I know, gentle reader, you get the allusion, but I will quote the post for those who reach this site via Internet search. I need all the Traffic I can get: Someone may want to rewrite Traffic\u2019s look at the dark side of [&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-33265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33265","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=33265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33267,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33265\/revisions\/33267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}