{"id":16921,"date":"2013-06-11T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2013-06-11T09:41:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:41:22","slug":"bob-alberti-would-you-look-at-that-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/bob-alberti-would-you-look-at-that-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Alberti.  Would you look at that face!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Alberti is a friend of mine in Minneapolis (actually, he was even my student for a few weeks).  I was rather startled to see is very scary face staring at me from the Internet this morning (see above).  All I can say, is if you run into this guy, watch out!  His snark is very, very sharp.<\/p>\n<p>From the Star Tribune article featuring Bob:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent study declared Minneapolis parks the best in the nation. We also have another fine natural resource: technology pioneers\/comedians who go on the Internet and smack down snooty New Yorkers. Which brings us to Bob Alberti.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was a kid, I went from living in Queens, where my mother was cruel and wouldn\u2019t let me swim in the overflowed sewers in the streets, to living on a lake in Minnesota, and I knew what I liked better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a professional insult comedian.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bob invented two things before he started his career as a Vilification Tennis master: He invented gaming and he invented the internet!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/minneapolis\/210707791.html\">Check out the story. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Alberti is a friend of mine in Minneapolis (actually, he was even my student for a few weeks). I was rather startled to see is very scary face staring at me from the Internet this morning (see above). All I can say, is if you run into this guy, watch out! His snark is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/11\/bob-alberti-would-you-look-at-that-face\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bob Alberti.  Would you look at that face!?!?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4oV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}