{"id":10975,"date":"2022-09-15T16:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T21:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=10975"},"modified":"2022-10-01T16:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T21:11:20","slug":"random-thursday-the-phoning-it-in-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2022\/09\/15\/random-thursday-the-phoning-it-in-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday: The Phoning It In Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why, hello there! Sorry if I look a bit pale and thin&#8230;I had a dream that someone stole a body part from me. Turns out that it wasn&#8217;t a dream, and now I&#8217;m wondering if there&#8217;s actually a black market for cancerous prostate glands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ick. That&#8217;s a tad dark, isn&#8217;t it? Let&#8217;s rewind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*<em>rewind sound<\/em>*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, hello there! Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/nationaldaycalendar.com\/national-double-cheeseburger-day-september-15\/\">National Double Cheeseburger Day<\/a>, and I&#8217;d love to share one with you except someone cut me open and&#8230;oops, there I go again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ackshually, I&#8217;m doing pretty well, except for that whole surgery thing. But if you&#8217;ve never suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/pain-relief\/referred-pain#body-areas\">referred pain<\/a> in your shoulders caused by someone pumping your abdomen full of inert gas, let me just say&#8230;I don&#8217;t recommend it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m not feeling particularly creative today so I&#8217;m going to make Plan B my Plan A, even though they&#8217;re pretty hard to tell apart. It&#8217;s been a while since I shared a series of <s>stolen<\/s> borrowed memes, and now is as good a time as any. The theme for this post is literary&#8230;y&#8217;know, books, writing, reading&#8230;stuff like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">File Under: Advice Stephen King should have taken<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/devilsinthedetails.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This might actually be an improvement<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/readingoutloud.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Still waiting?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/freepizza.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Their secret&#8217;s out. Who knew?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/hboprogramming.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">She must enjoy Stephen King novels a lot<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/facialexpressions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"316\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wait until he finds out about <em>Old Yeller<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/firstbookreview.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Those rascally librarians are at it again<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/seedsofanarchy.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the Dr. Dolittle Version of Revelation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/apalehorse.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Admit it&#8230;you&#8217;re singing this in your head&#8230;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/dollypoe.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You knew this was coming, right?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/stephenkingfirststory.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">But were they hornswoggled?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/thesauruswreck.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I always thought there was something fishy about bagpipes&#8230;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/memes\/overcomplicatedbong.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgery has sapped my creativity, unless you consider a carefully curated offering of literary-themed memes creative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memes","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dancers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10975"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11009,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions\/11009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}