{"id":24451,"date":"2019-09-24T23:20:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T03:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24451"},"modified":"2019-09-24T23:20:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T03:20:37","slug":"face-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/09\/face-dropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Face-dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was alerted to a video clip this morning by The Girlfriend, who got it from a Faceblerk post by a mutual friend. I am linking to it here with great reluctance, because the origin is Faux News, and my atheistic and immoral conscience <em>still<\/em> doesn&#8217;t like to send anyone to their site. If you ever wanted proof that god doesn&#8217;t exist, or at the very least doesn&#8217;t give a fuck about dishonesty and utter bullshit, it&#8217;s that the network still hasn&#8217;t been eradicated in a plague of leeches. Regardless, while they provided an embed script, it failed to work, quite possibly because it appears on the same page as the words, &#8220;Faux News,&#8221; so I have to link it. I still provided the embed code below it in case it&#8217;s just simply my own (intelligent) browser that&#8217;s the problem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/6088198075001\/?fbclid=IwAR1At5KaztIc7uIksQ6ATgqGA3_zzlDSwkf8syLFY5ZHAKYI5bkW4xxKs_Y#sp=show-clips\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The video link.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6088198075001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The news item itself, not to be dismissive or anything, is not the thing that I&#8217;m drawing attention to, but rather someone visible within, who you should certainly recognize. Did you miss him? Here&#8217;s a still image (slightly corrected for a videographer who did not know how to use the iris control of their camera)<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-24_08-15-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24452\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DamselflyHands.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9609\" \/><em>Now<\/em> you recognize him, right? Of course you do, given that he&#8217;s appeared on this very blog before. It&#8217;s none other that damselfly boy (not damsel flyboy, even though he&#8217;s in the US Air Force,) the guy demonstrating his insect-wrangling abilities from <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2012\/11\/on-composition-part-15-the-background\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>. It&#8217;s also the black ops guy mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/05\/podcast-but-no-annette-funicello\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this podcast<\/a>, and appearing again therein (well, the <em>post<\/em>, not the audio podcast that no one can appear within.)<\/p>\n<p>Being serious for just a few seconds to fulfill my annual obligation, I am admittedly not very supportive of our military, which hasn&#8217;t been involved in defending our country for <em>decades<\/em>, and I don&#8217;t think that enlisting is a path towards a future of any kind. Nonetheless, Black Ops here opted to pursue the medical fields when he joined up, which not only gives him an unarguably beneficial role while <em>in<\/em> the military, it provides him with viable career choices if and when he decides to leave. So yeah, he&#8217;s doing more than okay, even if he <em>still<\/em> pronounces my name with a wicked accent&#8230;<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was alerted to a video clip this morning by The Girlfriend, who got it from a Faceblerk post by a mutual friend. I am linking to it here with great reluctance, because the origin is Faux News, and my atheistic and immoral conscience still doesn&#8217;t like to send anyone to their site. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,12],"tags":[5104,5106,5105],"class_list":["post-24451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-random","tag-i-gotta-have-my-fun","tag-make-it-when-though","tag-whats-this-ayl-shit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}