{"id":1823,"date":"2004-09-10T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T18:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2004-09-10T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T18:43:30","slug":"visual-conflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"Visual conflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think my brain is starting to give way under the work stress this week.  I caught sight of a sign out of the corner of my eye, advertising the next meeting of the Gastrointestinal Journal society, and for a brief shining moment I caught myself wondering why a group of doctors would be writing about GI Joe.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd now I&#8217;ve got a whole mental plotline for what&#8217;s sure to be a wildly unsuccessful animated series about a guy named Joe who writes with his gastrointestinal tract.  He&#8217;ll have little morality plays about how chewing your food is the most important part of digestion, because &#8220;Gnawing is half the battle!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Either that or the whole idea of a 12&#8243; plastic GI Joe will be sullied forever when it&#8217;s discovered that someone named Joe is the recipient of an amazing new foot-long artificial stomach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think my brain is starting to give way under the work stress this week. I caught sight of a sign out of the corner of my eye, advertising the next meeting of the Gastrointestinal Journal society, and for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}