{"id":15830,"date":"2021-10-05T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15830"},"modified":"2021-10-05T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T23:56:07","slug":"adventures-in-partial-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15830","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in partial recall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sanity Clause - A Night at the Opera\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_Sy6oiJbEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The above clip<\/strong> from the Marx Brothers\u2019 \u201cA Night At the Opera\u201d is provided for no other reason than to pad out the rest of this post, which doesn\u2019t currently look promising in terms of thought or ideas. (The joke at the beginning about the \u201ckids in Canada\u201d is a reference to the Dionne Quintuplets, who were one of the big human interest stories of the day. Fertility drugs hadn\u2019t been invented yet, so multiple births of that magnitude were pretty rare. If they\u2019d had reality TV back then, the Dionnes would have had a show.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bee-yootiful day in Minneapolis today. Bright sun, temperatures in the mid-70s. I opened the sun roof on Miss Ingebretsen, my PT Cruiser, recently restored to me, then rolled the windows down and pretended I was driving a convertible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before that, though, I had a shock to the system. I opened my garage door, and my car was MISSING!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Cue scary orchestra chord: <em>DUM-DUMMMMM<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Who stole it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Who would steal an old PT Cruiser anyway?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">How did they get in? The door isn\u2019t damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t touch anything! There might be DNA evidence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I remembered I\u2019d parked it on the street when I got home from the gym, because I\u2019d be driving it to lunch in a couple hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Am I getting Alzheimer\u2019s?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Cue scary musical chord<em>: DUM-DUMMMMMM<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s possible, of course \u2013 witness my post about losing my keys not long ago (I forget exactly when. Don\u2019t look at me like that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my memory is good enough to remember that I used to do the same sort of thing in my 20s. I am known internationally for my brilliance, my talent, my impeccable taste, and my irresistible charm. But I\u2019ve never been known for my presence of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did I mention it was a Bee-yootiful day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above clip from the Marx Brothers\u2019 \u201cA Night At the Opera\u201d is provided for no other reason than to pad out the rest of this post, which doesn\u2019t currently look promising in terms of thought or ideas. (The joke at the beginning about the \u201ckids in Canada\u201d is a reference to the Dionne Quintuplets, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15830\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventures in partial recall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[3882,3881,3878],"class_list":["post-15830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goofing","tag-a-day-at-the-races","tag-memory","tag-the-marx-brothers"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15832,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15830\/revisions\/15832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}