{"id":3991,"date":"2010-03-24T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2010-06-30T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T02:45:13","slug":"with-help-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"With help like this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to avoid<em> Luann<\/em>.\u00a0 I liked high school a lot, but I never saw the point of being there for 25 years, like Luann and her buddies have, nor have I thought that there were enough hijinx to last that long (OTOH, Archie has been managing that for 50 years or so).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, blonde WASPY Luann has been cast as Maria in the spring musical West Side Story and has been given pointers (<em>ahem<\/em>) by Australian-exchange student Quill.\u00a0 The most useful?\u00a0 An ancient Chinese <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">fortune-cookie piece of tripe<\/span> proverb:\u00a0 <em>Sing to toes, sing through nose<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3992\" title=\"new-luann\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/new-luann.jpg\" alt=\"new-luann\" width=\"655\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/new-luann.jpg 655w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/new-luann-250x99.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 Be useful, Quill. Spout platitudes.\u00a0 Maybe when you go back to Dingo&#8217;s Kidney, New South Wales, you can become the Aussie version of Mary Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to avoid Luann.\u00a0 I liked high school a lot, but I never saw the point of being there for 25 years, like Luann and her buddies have, nor have I thought that there were enough hijinx to last that long (OTOH, Archie has been managing that for 50 years or so). Anyway, blonde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-teens-are-not-funny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}