{"id":392,"date":"2004-06-25T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/06\/25\/oh-the-irony\/"},"modified":"2004-06-25T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T14:38:07","slug":"oh-the-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/06\/25\/oh-the-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, The Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a502'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I was watching TV last night and my attention was drawn to a commercial for a new IMAX movie called &#8220;Bugs&#8221;. It was visually interesting and talked about how a leaf to a bug is like the weight of a car to a human. The imagery was amazing.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I was drawn to the ad and it made me curious to see it at the IMAX theater. Then, towards the end of this commercial, the announcer said &#8220;this IMAX presentation has been sponsored by&#8230;.TERMINIX&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>That&#8217;s freaking hilarious! A movie&nbsp;about the life of&nbsp;bugs is sponsored by American&#8217;s&nbsp;#1 bug exterminator service. &nbsp;Either somebody has a brilliant sense of humor&#8230;or somebody is completely clueless.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>On a related note, I&#8217;m a wimp when it comes to bugs and spiders&#8230;but not in the way you&#8217;d think. I have no problem when I see a bug or spider. In fact, before equine encephylitis (spelling?) I used to allow mosquitos to land on me and I&#8217;d watch them suck blood. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>No, I&#8217;m a wimp when it comes to bugs because I don&#8217;t want to kill them. I feel bad. I mean, it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re doing anything intentionally to harm humans. They&#8217;re just trying to survive&#8230;just like me.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>So, I tend to try and capture them and release them away from me. I&#8217;ll open a window or door and let them free. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Am I a freak?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching TV last night and my attention was drawn to a commercial for a new IMAX movie called &#8220;Bugs&#8221;. It was visually interesting and talked about how a leaf to a bug is like the weight of a car to a human. The imagery was amazing. I was drawn to the ad and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}