{"id":1101,"date":"2007-11-05T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattstooks.kcmarketer.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2007-11-05T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T04:01:00","slug":"rip-what-century-are-you-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"RIP: What century are you in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzy Osbourne is playing the Sprint Center, and my mom asked &#8220;is he going to bite the head off a bat?&#8221;  I told her I didn&#8217;t think he did that anymore.  &#8220;Maybe he&#8217;ll bite the top off a bottle of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geritol\">Geritol<\/a>, instead,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it was funny, but I felt that Geritol was a pretty outdated reference.  So, I asked &#8220;what century are you in?&#8221;  At that moment, I realized that &#8220;what century are you in?&#8221; could include a relatively recent period of time. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What century are you in?&#8221; doesn&#8217;t really work as a slam until you&#8217;re in the later part of the century.  Therefore, it&#8217;s dead to me.  If only we&#8217;d known earlier, we would&#8217;ve been sure to use it more when we could.  We were simply too distracted with Y2K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ozzy Osbourne is playing the Sprint Center, and my mom asked &#8220;is he going to bite the head off a bat?&#8221; I told her I didn&#8217;t think he did that anymore. &#8220;Maybe he&#8217;ll bite the top off a bottle of Geritol, instead,&#8221; she said. Yes, it was funny, but I felt that Geritol was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-words","category-rip"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pzeu-hL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}