{"id":35709,"date":"2026-09-23T07:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35709"},"modified":"2026-09-23T07:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:34:39","slug":"like-an-old-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/23\/like-an-old-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Like An Old Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My beautiful wife and I have started watching the first season of <em>Cheers<\/em> from 1982 since I recently re-discovered and unboxed it in the collection of books and videos I saved from when her mother downsized three years ago.  <\/p>\n<p>Last night, while watching the intro, I had a little epiphany.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NcmaGpIwsJQ?si=Y7ffdZJAJSg5Qb3s\" 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>The intro features a contemporaneous exterior shot that then changes into a montage of old photos and paintings from bars and similar locales in the past.<\/p>\n<p>That then-contemporary exterior shot?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cheersintrostill.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>As far in the past as some of the old-timey photos would have been to the show in 1982.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I should have added the <em>I don&#8217;t want to make you feel old, old man<\/em> warning to this post, but there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My beautiful wife and I have started watching the first season of Cheers from 1982 since I recently re-discovered and unboxed it in the collection of books and videos I saved from when her mother downsized three years ago. Last night, while watching the intro, I had a little epiphany. The intro features a contemporaneous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35709","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=35709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35710,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35709\/revisions\/35710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}