{"id":2002,"date":"2008-01-22T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2008-01-22T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T10:49:08","slug":"yes-yes-a-thousand-times-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Yes.  Yes.  A Thousand Times Yes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Classmates.com<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg<br \/>\nRe:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Tenth Anniversary of your ad.<\/p>\n<p>To whom it may concern,<\/p>\n<p>You (pl) have been running the &#8220;She Married <em>Him<\/em>?&#8221; banner ad featuring this misbegotten couple&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2167\/2209606111_5f9e5b04d7_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;roughly since 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 They got married.\u00a0 They had seven kids.\u00a0 they were a happy couple, oddly enough, given the the odd nature of their &#8220;Bowser Meets Mr. Dreamy&#8221; relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Then came your stupid ad in all of its permutations, and things were doomed from then on.\u00a0 The stress of being &#8220;that geeky pasty-faced redhead&#8221; and &#8220;the jockboy who married the weird chick&#8221; probably got to them.\u00a0 Their kids will be in therapy forever.<\/p>\n<p>Are you satisfied, you bastards?<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>POSTCRIPT:\u00a0 Or, maybe, that is <em>not <\/em>all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I <em>had <\/em>to google the story after I wrote this &#8211; and found out that in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2003325519_adcouple27.html\">there&#8217;s a story behind the picture. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Classmates.com From: Mitch Berg Re:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Tenth Anniversary of your ad. To whom it may concern, You (pl) have been running the &#8220;She Married Him?&#8221; banner ad featuring this misbegotten couple&#8230; \u00a0 &#8230;roughly since 1994.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 They got married.\u00a0 They had seven kids.\u00a0 they were a happy couple, oddly enough, given the the odd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}