{"id":2695,"date":"2004-04-20T15:51:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T22:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2004-04-20T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T22:51:42","slug":"dear-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/20\/dear-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Journalists:  Please stop describing each and every confluence of events as a perfect storm.  I think we&#8217;re pretty much done with that.  And don&#8217;t get tricky by putting &#8216;perfect storm&#8217; in scare quotes or by calling it a <em>so-called<\/em> perfect storm, because we all know that&#8217;s just secret code for &#8220;couldn&#8217;t come up with my own analogy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also!  Dear TV Sitcom Commercial Writers:  I&#8217;m pretty sure that &#8220;putting the fun into dysfunctional!&#8221; joke has been made before.  Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise!  Dear TV Drama Commercial Writers:  Your assertions notwithstanding,  there probably <em>are<\/em> some things that could adequately prepare me for the shocking finale.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion!  Dear everyone on Earth:  Stop scuffing your feet when you walk, fercrissakes.  What are you, seven?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Journalists: Please stop describing each and every confluence of events as a perfect storm. I think we&#8217;re pretty much done with that. And don&#8217;t get tricky by putting &#8216;perfect storm&#8217; in scare quotes or by calling it a so-called perfect storm, because we all know that&#8217;s just secret code for &#8220;couldn&#8217;t come up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}