{"id":33670,"date":"2025-04-14T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33670"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:53:10","slug":"facebook-is-reading-my-brothers-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/14\/facebook-is-reading-my-brothers-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Is Reading My Brother&#8217;s Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I texted him &#8220;Are you there, God?  It&#8217;s me, Margaret.&#8221;  And then asked him if he was on Team Blume or Team Cleary.<\/p>\n<p>So suddenly Facebook is suggesting Blume books to me:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/areyoutheregod.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Even though I am sure I told my brother that I was on Team Cleary.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Perkins, my fourth grade teacher, read <em>Ribsy<\/em> to the class, and I was pleased to find that I somehow already had <em>Henry and the Clubhouse<\/em> at home.  I read all of the Henry Huggins books and even the Quimby books to the time (what, 1980?&#8211;some have been published since).  I guess I read a number of the Blume books, too, but I identified more with Henry Huggins (and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Reed_(character)\" target=\"_new\">Henry Reed<\/a>) than with Fudge or the girl from <em>Blubber<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if my boys will look back on the Dav Pilkey (<em>Captain Underpants<\/em>) or Jeff Kinney (<em>Diary of a Wimpy Kid<\/em>) books the same way.  Probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I texted him &#8220;Are you there, God? It&#8217;s me, Margaret.&#8221; And then asked him if he was on Team Blume or Team Cleary. So suddenly Facebook is suggesting Blume books to me: Even though I am sure I told my brother that I was on Team Cleary. Mrs. Perkins, my fourth grade teacher, read Ribsy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670","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=33670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33815,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670\/revisions\/33815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}