{"id":458,"date":"2016-03-04T00:18:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-03-04T00:18:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T00:18:52","slug":"disconcerting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Disconcerting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am the proud owner of several (mainly) loyal pets. \u00a0For the most part, they perform their roles as expected (lying around or enthusiastically sniffing things, respectively). \u00a0But every now and again, one or both will give me this look, as if I&#8217;ve just done something very peculiar and possibly transgressive. \u00a0The last time this happened, I asked the hound &#8220;Do I <em>look <\/em>like a weirdo?&#8221; \u00a0Nothing odd about that, but the disconcerting thing is that having uttered that, the whole of the &#8220;Captain Vegetable&#8221; song from the golden age of <em>Sesame Street<\/em> sprang into my head\u00a0(except for a small gap after Eddie says that spaghetti is a &#8220;lovely thing that looks like string&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sesame Street - Captain Vegetable\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmjLqddPqZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to come up with something else I recall so clearly from my childhood (or more likely, college years), and coming up empty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the proud owner of several (mainly) loyal pets. \u00a0For the most part, they perform their roles as expected (lying around or enthusiastically sniffing things, respectively). \u00a0But every now and again, one or both will give me this look, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-7o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}