{"id":176100,"date":"2020-09-05T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/05\/could-someone-help-me-with-a-metaphor\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T23:13:00","slug":"could-someone-help-me-with-a-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/05\/could-someone-help-me-with-a-metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Someone Help Me with a Metaphor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Sometimes, I’m not good with metaphors. <\/p>\n

I can recognize that certain situations evoke a metaphor just as well as the average Joe, but sometimes, the metaphorical possibilities are so broad that I am paralyzed by the range of choices.<\/p>\n

Case in point, the sinking of multiple boats at the pro-Trump rally on Lake Travis outside of Austin, TX<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Is this the time for a metaphor about choppy waters, or a metaphor about the wakes of large boats swamping small boats, or just a snarky comment about how maritime navigation charts having a,”Well known liberal bias?”<\/p>\n

I am at a loss, reader(s), so I need your help:<\/p>\n

A parade of boats in Texas celebrating their support for Donald Trump ended in disarray when multiple vessels got into trouble on apparently choppy waters leading to several sinking and a slew of distress calls being made to rescue officials. <\/p>\n

Multiple media reports <\/a>described a chaotic scene on Lake Travis, near the state capital of Austin, when a procession of boats waving Trump flags and banners motored over the waters but then got into potentially serious trouble. <\/p>\n

Videos of the event circulating <\/a>on social media <\/a>showed several boats being swamped by waves and sinking as frantic passengers jumped into the water.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, I’m not good with metaphors. I can recognize that certain situations evoke a metaphor just as well as the average Joe, but sometimes, the metaphorical possibilities are so broad that I am paralyzed by the range of choices. Case in point, the sinking of multiple boats at the pro-Trump rally on Lake Travis outside …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,588,374,486,471],"class_list":["post-176100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-fail","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}