{"id":2388,"date":"2024-12-11T20:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:15","slug":"the-barney-trope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/the-barney-trope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Barney Trope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/barm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2389\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Who do you love?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6481076bd87f305eb504e6280274f18d wp-block-paragraph\">We can go Pistol or Purple&#8230;.. <br> The Fife and the Fuzzball are icons of an older era. Both are single men. One has a gun, the other has fun.<br>The Barney of Mayberry is a lovable oaf. <br>The Singing Barney makes friends and loves everyone. Its a shame not all have learned the lesson of unconditional love and making friends. This should sting for some, and open eyes for others. <br>     Barney Fife, never had an enemy. It wasn&#8217;t his nature to question or cross people. <br>     Purple Barney is make believe, with a lesson on life every day. To do what is right, and never leave the water on.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can go Pistol or Purple&#8230;.. The Fife and the Fuzzball are icons of an older era. Both are single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/barney-fife-498-x-370-gif-16eb0sptqwuzod5m.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}