{"id":130,"date":"2006-09-10T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=130"},"modified":"2006-09-10T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T17:22:00","slug":"plastic-food-and-cow-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/plastic-food-and-cow-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic food and cow tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/231317824\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/57\/231317824_8edb69d17f_m_d.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know why, but the photo on the right of Phyllis&#8217;s daughter Charlotte immediately reminded me of Gary Larson&#8217;s famous <i>Cow Tools<\/i>.  (Click on the cartoon to read a biographical article about him <stroke>in Salon<\/stroke>, btw.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know exactly why&#8230;  Is it their facial expressions \u2013 half proud, half clueless?  Is it the uselessness of the items in front of them?  Is it the absurdity of the set-up?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CowTools\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pub\/images\/ctools.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"30%\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know, but I know that the two pictures bring up exactly the same emotions in me, and I can sit staring at them for ages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but the photo on the right of Phyllis&#8217;s daughter Charlotte immediately reminded me of Gary Larson&#8217;s famous Cow Tools. (Click on the cartoon to read a biographical article about him in Salon, btw.) I don&#8217;t know exactly why&#8230; Is it their facial expressions \u2013 half proud, half clueless? Is it the uselessness of the items in front of them? Is it the absurdity of the set-up? I don&#8217;t know, but I know that the two pictures bring up exactly the same emotions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,115,119,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-kids","category-media","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}