{"id":122,"date":"2005-12-14T10:48:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-05-03T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T20:26:38","slug":"blah_blah_ginger_blah_blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2005\/blah_blah_ginger_blah_blah\/","title":{"rendered":"blah blah GINGER blah blah&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p><center><strong>[Cartoon removed as a result of a very friendly Cease and Desist Notice from Gary Larson.\u00c2\u00a0 Woops.]<\/strong> <\/center><center>\u00c2\u00a0<\/center>Do you remember this Far Side comic by Gary Larson?  I saw it as a young kid on the secretary&#8217;s wall at the veterinarian&#8217;s office.  I thought it was hillarious, and somehow, it stuck with me.  Whenever I find that I can&#8217;t understand (or I&#8217;m just not paying attention to)  something I&#8217;m hearing, I&#8217;ll repeat in my head, &#8220;blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah GINGER&#8230;&#8221;But I thought I was crazy for doing that, so I kept the inside joke to myself.  Recently, though, in one of my classes, someone brought this up in perfect context.  We were looking at examples of work that was hard to understand, and someone casually babbled, &#8220;blah blah blah GINGER&#8230;&#8221; Even more to my shock, most of the class chimed in!It&#8217;s beautiful moments like these when I realize that, even though some of us may think we&#8217;re crazy, the rest of the world is often up there with us.  (props to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbrick.dcu.ie\/~pariah\/photos\/farside\/thumbnails\/\">redbrik.cu.ie<\/a> for archiving these comics.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.[Cartoon removed as a result of a very friendly Cease and Desist Notice from Gary Larson.\u00c2\u00a0 Woops.] \u00c2\u00a0Do you remember this Far Side comic by Gary Larson? I saw it as a young kid on the secretary&#8217;s wall at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}