{"id":35467,"date":"2026-07-13T08:12:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35467"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T21:31:21","slug":"suddenly-i-am-16-and-in-a-school-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/13\/suddenly-i-am-16-and-in-a-school-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly, I Am 16 And In A School Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Driscoll at Instapundit <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/809600\/\" target=\"_new\">posted<\/a> a tweet by Kevin Sorbo indicating that people could be &#8220;radicalized&#8221; by watching commercials from the 1990s, and Driscoll posts this one:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h__l_HLlN5g?si=oRE7hlwMwAOQcpWp\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, gentle reader.  A grainy little box on a computer screen is not the way I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>I saw it projected on the wall of the Northwest High School gym at an all-school or more likely an all-school assembly parted into gym-sized groups of students.  <\/p>\n<p>At almost 3 minutes, the pseudo-music-video advertisement wasn&#8217;t for television, and it would have taken us several hours to download it from BBSes.  No, this was designed just for that: To prepend Stay In School\/Don&#8217;t Do Drugs mass meetings.  And it, like Van Halen&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h2WMwISL3Tw&#038;list=RDh2WMwISL3Tw\" target=\"_new\">Dreams<\/a>&#8221; which I also saw for the first time at one of these assemblies, played upon a young man&#8217;s blood, for sure.<\/p>\n<p>I, too, remember the before times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Driscoll at Instapundit posted a tweet by Kevin Sorbo indicating that people could be &#8220;radicalized&#8221; by watching commercials from the 1990s, and Driscoll posts this one: Ah, gentle reader. A grainy little box on a computer screen is not the way I saw it. I saw it projected on the wall of the Northwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertisements","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467","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=35467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35468,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35467\/revisions\/35468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}