{"id":33269,"date":"2024-11-20T07:29:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33269"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:39:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:39:49","slug":"who-else-is-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/20\/who-else-is-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Else Is Listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, my beautiful wife and I were talking about an upcoming Christmas-themed trivia night, and I was not enthusiastic about it as my Christmas trivia is probably wanting.  After all, at the Thanksgiving potluck last Sunday, they offered Thanksgiving-themed trivia, and I\/we only got 70% of the questions right (the other couple from the North Side Mindflayers were on their own and did better, but they do carry the team in actual trivia nights).<\/p>\n<p>So Monday night, I said that the best that I could hope for was to be asked in what films now-standard Christmas songs appeared, and I mentioned that &#8220;Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas&#8221; appeared in <em>Meet Me In St. Louis<\/em> (which I watched <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/22\/movie-report-meet-me-in-st-louis-1944\/\" target=\"_new\">last year<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, Facebook was all like&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/meetmeinstlouis.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Because of course it was.  But then <em>St. Louis Magazine<\/em> was all like&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/stlmagdress.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>St. Louis Magazine is listening to me, too?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I briefly thought maybe it was just a news story that Facebook thought I would be interested in because Facebook reads my blog and knows I just saw the film and is maybe not listening to the keystrokes forming this post even now.<\/p>\n<p><em>But that&#8217;s just what they want me to think.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coincidence starts with the same letters as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COINTELPRO\" target=\"_new\">COINTELPRO<\/a>.  C&#8217;mon, <em>wake up!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, my beautiful wife and I were talking about an upcoming Christmas-themed trivia night, and I was not enthusiastic about it as my Christmas trivia is probably wanting. After all, at the Thanksgiving potluck last Sunday, they offered Thanksgiving-themed trivia, and I\/we only got 70% of the questions right (the other couple from [&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-33269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269","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=33269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33272,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269\/revisions\/33272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}