{"id":33564,"date":"2025-03-01T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33564"},"modified":"2025-03-01T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T20:22:32","slug":"the-quadrennium-of-the-nudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/01\/the-quadrennium-of-the-nudge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quadrennium Of The Nudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, again.  Facebook is starting to show me contacts with whom I&#8217;ve not had much truck in a long while (because Facebook generally prefers to show me suggested posts and whatnot) but whose expressed opinions are disproval of the current administration (which is a little over a month old and has already apparently ruined everything).<\/p>\n<p>I mean, we&#8217;ve got the professional poet whom I knew 25 years ago who disapproves.  We don&#8217;t comment or like each other&#8217;s posts&#8211;why is she back with her disapproval?<\/p>\n<p>I dunno.  I guess Facebook has an interesting idea of whom I want to see anyway.  I get posts from an ex-pat with, erm, modernly special child or children, with whom I worked twenty years ago.  I get my cousin the yoga teacher who just married a woman.  <\/p>\n<p>I also get this Twitter friend whose webinar I attended this month, but who probably could do without my Internet acquaintance:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/ftrump.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Jeez, man.  Tell me your job depends upon government funding without saying those words.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is not nudging me to more modernly approved opinions.  I&#8217;m getting nudged to not bother any more.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;ve grabbed my best one-liners from Facebook and put them onto the recycler tour posts here anyway.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, again. Facebook is starting to show me contacts with whom I&#8217;ve not had much truck in a long while (because Facebook generally prefers to show me suggested posts and whatnot) but whose expressed opinions are disproval of the current administration (which is a little over a month old and has already apparently ruined everything). [&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-33564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33564","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=33564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33565,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33564\/revisions\/33565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}