{"id":518,"date":"2020-11-29T02:04:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2020-11-29T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T02:04:11","slug":"black-and-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Black and Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why this is such a difficult thing for people to understand, but <em>Black<\/em>beard was the famous pirate. <em>\u00a0Blue<\/em>beard was just a serial murderer of wives. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure why either murderous criminal would be considered a good corporate symbol.\u00a0 But if, for instance, a company that sells hair care products wanted to use Bluebeard as a mascot, going for some kind of jolly roger motif is way off base.\u00a0 Bluebeard&#8217;s whole thing was keys, so might I suggest his use by a lock manufacturer?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_690\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-690\" class=\"size-full wp-image-690\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bluebeard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bluebeard.jpg 277w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bluebeard-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This guy wouldn&#8217;t last a day at sea<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At least Edward Teach had a certain amount of flair (come to think of it, a beard products company that had Blackbeard as their mascot could try to bring back his striking fashion statement of wearing a bunch of lighted slow-burning matches in his beard &#8211; it&#8217;s hard to find beard matches these days).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2018\/02\/01\/18\/14\/pirate-3123711_960_720.png\" alt=\"Pirate Edward Teach Corsair - Free vector graphic on Pixabay\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why this is such a difficult thing for people to understand, but Blackbeard was the famous pirate. \u00a0Bluebeard was just a serial murderer of wives. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure why either murderous criminal would be considered a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=518\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words-mean-things-dammit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-8m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}