{"id":365,"date":"2009-10-02T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T20:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikevarley.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2009-09-06T16:16:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T00:16:50","slug":"the-week-is-link-high-school-metaphors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"The Week is Link: High School Metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/help.com\/post\/124066-funny-metaphors-used-in-high-school\">Click to read terrible metaphors culled from high school essays<\/a>, such as this one: &#8221; She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My favorites after the jump:<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8211;He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.<\/p>\n\t\t<div style=\"float:right;margin:10px 10px 0px 0px;\">\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"DiggThisButton DiggCompact\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmikevarley.com%2F%3Fp%3D365&title=The+Week+is+Link%3A+High+School+Metaphors\" ><span style=\"display:none\">Click to read terrible metaphors culled from high school essays, such as this one: &#8221; She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.&#8221; My favorites after the jump:<\/span><\/a>\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\r\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to read terrible metaphors culled from high school essays, such as this one: &#8221; She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.&#8221; My favorites after the jump: Click to read terrible metaphors culled from high school essays, such as this one: &#8221; She had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\t\t<div style=\"float:right;margin:10px 10px 0px 0px;\">\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"DiggThisButton DiggCompact\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmikevarley.com%2F%3Fp%3D365&title=The+Week+is+Link%3A+High+School+Metaphors\" ><span style=\"display:none\">Click to read terrible metaphors culled from high school essays, such as this one: &#8221; She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.&#8221; My favorites after the jump:<\/span><\/a>\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\r\n\t\t","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikevarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}