{"id":12446,"date":"2020-01-21T20:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T01:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=12446"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:18:26","slug":"snail-today-drawing-of-a-snail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/21\/snail-today-drawing-of-a-snail\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01222020-01-e1579656443223.jpeg\" alt=\"Snail today (Drawing of a snail)\" class=\"wp-image-12445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01222020-01-e1579656443223.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01222020-01-e1579656443223-300x288.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Snail today (Drawing of a snail)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nSlow down, you move to fast. Got to make the morning last.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01242020-04.jpg\" alt=\"^ Is this a ... ?\" class=\"wp-image-12489\" width=\"277\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01242020-04.jpg 499w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01242020-04-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01242020-04-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/AW01242020-04-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><figcaption>^ Is this a &#8230; ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes. It is. It&#8217;s a snail. It&#8217;s not a pigeon. Or a butterfly. It &#8216;s also not a snail, if you follow the example set by Rene Magritte about his painting of a pipe. Or were you talking about my response? In that case, it&#8217;s a meme&#8217;s ancester, aka an allusion, in this case via a quotation, from Simon and Garfunkel&#8217;s &#8220;59th St. Bridge Song.&#8221; It&#8217;s a roundabout compliment about the happiness evoked by the drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow down, you move to fast. Got to make the morning last. Yes. It is. It&#8217;s a snail. It&#8217;s not a pigeon. Or a butterfly. It &#8216;s also not a snail, if you follow the example set by Rene Magritte about his painting of a pipe. Or were you talking about my response? In that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/01\/21\/snail-today-drawing-of-a-snail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snail today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12512,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions\/12512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}