{"id":93,"date":"2009-01-13T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallioncornell.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/13\/what-were-we-thinking"},"modified":"2009-01-13T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T05:05:00","slug":"what-were-we-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/what-were-we-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"What were we thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a picture of yours truly, de-Yullified, taken circa 1976:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallioncornell.com\/uploaded_images\/kid-700237.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallioncornell.com\/uploaded_images\/kid-700107.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This photo is disturbing on many, many levels.<\/p>\n<p>In the first place, why did I own a shirt with a pair of smelly old shoes on it? When did my parents pick that out for me? My birthday? Christmas? I can imagine the conversation: &#8220;Old, stinky shoes?! This is perfect for Stallion!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind this is a posed photo for a professional photographer. Who thought it was a good idea to wear that particular shirt on picture day? And what&#8217;s with the hair &#8211; the length, the disorder, the split ends? The only part of the picture that makes any sense is the fact that I&#8217;m not smiling. I mean, come on. If you looked like this at any time in your life, would you be happy about it?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so frightening about this picture is that it&#8217;s from a formal family portrait, and everyone else in the picture looks just as bad, if not worse. Indeed, I&#8217;d post the entire picture, except that I&#8217;d probably open myself up to lawsuits from some of my siblings. (My brother&#8217;s probably not happy about being in the left hand corner up there as it is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thisis a picture of yours truly, de-Yullified, taken circa 1976:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallioncornell.com\/uploaded_images\/kid-700237.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.stallioncornell.com\/uploaded_images\/kid-700107.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  This photo is disturbing on many, many levels.  In the first place, why did I own a shirt with a pair of smelly old shoes on it? When did my parents pick that out for me? My birthday? Christmas? I can imagine the conversation: \"Old,  ... <a title=\"What were we thinking?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/what-were-we-thinking\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What were we thinking?\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}