{"id":790,"date":"2006-05-27T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2006-05-27T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T13:23:00","slug":"sign-o-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"Sign O&#8217; The Times?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving down Wornall yesterday, and there&#8217;s a house in Brookside that has the big &#8220;KC Royals&#8221; Cow, from the Cow Parade exhibit that was here a while back. <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that the cow had a black garbage bag tied tightly over its head.  Not sure if it was for cleaning, or the object d&#8217;art had finally had enough embarassment from representing our losing team day after day, and was trying to end it all, a la <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?sec=health&#038;res=9D0CE5D9153AF937A35756C0A967958260\">Jerzy Kosinski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just so my blog&#8217;s not solely the home of snark, obscure literary references, and self-obsessed drama, I will note that had :I: been invited to decorate a cow, I would have knit it a sweater and called it &#8220;Bovine in Sheep&#8217;s Clothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving down Wornall yesterday, and there&#8217;s a house in Brookside that has the big &#8220;KC Royals&#8221; Cow, from the Cow Parade exhibit that was here a while back. I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that the cow had a black garbage bag tied tightly over its head. Not sure if it was for cleaning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}