{"id":35760,"date":"2026-10-10T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35760"},"modified":"2026-10-10T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:56:53","slug":"unreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/10\/unreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have joined a Springfield, Missouri, Facebook group run by an acquaintance and have slowed scrolling to read Ozarks Alive captions, Facebook thinks I should see all the regional groups and whatnot.  Even when they&#8217;re not real.  Like a colorful autumn photo purportedly in Joplin, with oranges, yellows, and reds.  C&#8217;mon, man, they had the same extremely dry September that we had, and their trees this year are going to go from dull green to brown if they have not already (although in the northern part of the state, I presume it will be better since they had copious amounts of rain throughout the summer).<\/p>\n<p>But what in the fresh hell is this?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mohammedaifspringfieldmo.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I guess some of those names are right, but the James River is not that big and does not run through Springfield, and&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, no, that is not Springfield, and I&#8217;m not sure what the point is of mocking something like that up.  Trying to sell some sort of travel slop to people who aren&#8217;t from here?  Who knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I have joined a Springfield, Missouri, Facebook group run by an acquaintance and have slowed scrolling to read Ozarks Alive captions, Facebook thinks I should see all the regional groups and whatnot. Even when they&#8217;re not real. Like a colorful autumn photo purportedly in Joplin, with oranges, yellows, and reds. C&#8217;mon, man, they had [&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-35760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760","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=35760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35761,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35760\/revisions\/35761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}