{"id":13536,"date":"2010-12-28T08:53:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T16:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/12\/28\/13536.html"},"modified":"2010-12-28T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T16:53:30","slug":"disconcerting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/12\/28\/disconcerting\/","title":{"rendered":"Disconcerting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was looking at a news story just now, and a disconcerting link caught my eye:<\/p>\n<img alt=\"JedTopReasonForFailure.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/JedTopReasonForFailure.png\" width=\"308\" height=\"188\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 20px auto 20px;\" \/>\n<p>In case you can't see that, it's a photo of an unhappy-looking white guy with a beard, and underneath it there's a bolded link that reads &ldquo;Top Reason for Failure: Jed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought it was one of those joke web apps that gets the visitor's name from any of various sources and then plugs it into a fake headline. But then I realized that it was a real link to a real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/12\/28\/MNMA1H0753.DTL\">article about the president of the 49ers<\/a>, Jed York, whom I hadn't previously heard of.<\/p>\n<p>Still, found it amusing.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at a news story just now, and a disconcerting link caught my eye: In case you can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}