{"id":17862,"date":"2025-11-07T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17862"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:56:39","slug":"smile-when-you-say-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17862","title":{"rendered":"Smile when you say that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/11\/07\/smile-when-you-say-that\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/11\/07\/smile-when-you-say-that\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>helps the tough medicine go down. Smile when you say that, some cowboy tough guy said back when Hopalong Cassidy was making movies. Might have taken the edge off calling the cow puncher at the other end of the saloon a horn-swoggling, lily-livered, yellow-bellied son of a one-eyed prairie dog. Don\u2019t recall it ever being [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/11\/07\/smile-when-you-say-that\/ helps the tough medicine go down. Smile when you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17863,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17862\/revisions\/17863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}