{"id":1179,"date":"2010-06-04T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2010-06-04T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T15:14:07","slug":"why-a-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/why-a-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Duck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting in the bathroom, reading one of those insipid Sunday paper magazines, I saw a text heavy ad about a cure for tinnitus, an incessant ringing or buzzing in the ear.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had it, (although I&#8217;ve experienced the symptoms temporarily after too-loud concerts or shooting off an excessive amount of fireworks) but for some reason it interests me.<\/p>\n<p>The writer claimed to have tried this, that and the other thing, all to no avail, then to have stumbled on the perfect homeopathic remedy.<\/p>\n<p>Dammit!\u00c2\u00a0 He just wasted two minutes of my life that could have been spent reading pointless gossip elsewhere in the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not fond of regulation, but I&#8217;d make an exception for ads like this.\u00c2\u00a0 Any ad that has any kind of an unproven miracle cure should be required to feature a large cartoon duck in the upper right hand corner.<\/p>\n<p>It would serve as a warning that the ad was written by a quack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting in the bathroom, reading one of those insipid Sunday paper magazines, I saw a text heavy ad about a cure for tinnitus, an incessant ringing or buzzing in the ear.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never had it, (although I&#8217;ve experienced the symptoms temporarily after too-loud concerts or shooting off an excessive amount of fireworks) but for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}