{"id":9565,"date":"2011-07-03T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2011-07-03T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T22:23:39","slug":"messing-with-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/03\/messing-with-alex\/","title":{"rendered":"Messing with Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I&#8217;m officially in the hopper as a potential Jeopardy! contestant for the next 17 months, 2 weeks.  Someday, I might stand behind a podium with an illuminated negative score after the first commercial break, letting Alex Trebek and the audience get to know me a little better.  Have you ever noticed that sometimes, the Jeopardy! contestants seem a little surprised at the thing Alex mentions?  That&#8217;s because you write them down on a piece of paper before your audition.  So by the time you&#8217;re on the show, a year and a half could have elapsed before Mr. Trebek brings it up.  Bloody heck, I&#8217;m already forgetting what I wrote down, and it&#8217;s been three weeks since my audition.<\/p>\n<p>But various alternatives are running through my head: responses I could make whatever Alex brings up.  Responses like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Your intelligence service is very good, Mr. Trebek.  I&#8217;ve never told that story before to any living person.<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li>Deny it.  <em><strong>What?  I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about.  That never happened.<\/em><\/strong>\n<\/li>\n<li>Burst out weeping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, that would really never happen.  I would probably be vibrating like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_%281940%29\" target=\"_blank\">Tacoma Narrows Bridge<\/a> and would have to focus too much on keeping myself together to be clever.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m much funnier on the Internet than in person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I&#8217;m officially in the hopper as a potential Jeopardy! contestant for the next 17 months, 2 weeks. Someday, I might stand behind a podium with an illuminated negative score after the first commercial break, letting Alex Trebek and the audience get to know me a little better. Have you ever [&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-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","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=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}