{"id":5603,"date":"2011-11-29T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2011-11-29T20:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:36:37","slug":"a-passing-resemblance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=5603","title":{"rendered":"A passing resemblance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, one of my older patients said to his wife, &#8220;You know who he looks like? That guy. You know. The one who played John Adams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having missed that one, I flashed on some actor in a powdered white wig . . . but a little trip to IMDB later that day revealed he was referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0316079\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Giamatti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno . . . I don&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/doug1.jpg\" alt=\"doug1\" title=\"doug1\" width=\"177\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5605\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/paul_giamatti_14827.jpg\" alt=\"paul_giamatti_14827\" title=\"paul_giamatti_14827\" width=\"225\" height=\"222\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other news, while I may look like Paul Giamatti (whom I am looking forward to seeing next year in J<em>ohn Dies at the End<\/em> &#8212; read it, damn it!), I feel like van Gogh&#8217;s doctor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/van-gogh-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"van-gogh\" title=\"van-gogh\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/van-gogh-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/van-gogh.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which is to say, I have a head cold, and in my weirdly constructive memory, I cast Dr. Gachet as a physician-heal-thyself kinda guy with a cold pack (or a warm pack, take your pick) mounted on his forehead.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m willing to concede it may be a hat.<\/p>\n<p>D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, one of my older patients said to his wife, &#8220;You know who he looks like? That guy. You know. The one who played John Adams.&#8221; Having missed that one, I flashed on some actor in a powdered white wig . . . but a little trip to IMDB later that day revealed he was&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/?p=5603\">Continue Reading A passing resemblance?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","radius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballsandwalnuts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}