{"id":606,"date":"2017-11-12T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giacomomiceli.com\/blog\/?p=606"},"modified":"2022-03-05T07:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T07:27:22","slug":"gotta-go-hoover-talking-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/2017\/11\/12\/gotta-go-hoover-talking-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta go hoover the talking seal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoover_(seal)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Citation not needed]<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.giacomomiceli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/awkward-seal-ft.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hoover was a harbor seal who was able to imitate basic human speech.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>On the British comedy panel game show QI, host Stephen Fry asked the question: \u201cWhat is meant by the expression &#8220;Hoover the talking seal\u201d?\u201d Panelist Roger McGough answered, \u201cWell, it&#8217;s either one of those wonderful Oz expressions for throwing up: Excuse me, I&#8217;ve got to go hoover the talking seal\u201d; to which Fry replied: \u201c&#8230;or my wife came in just as I was hoovering the talking seal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pZS0coZ0NSw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Citation not needed]: Hoover was a harbor seal who was able to imitate basic human speech. [&#8230;] On the British comedy panel game show QI, host Stephen Fry asked the question: \u201cWhat is meant by the expression &#8220;Hoover the talking seal\u201d?\u201d Panelist Roger McGough answered, \u201cWell, it&#8217;s either one of those wonderful Oz expressions for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"understrap-read-more-link button button-black\" href=\"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/2017\/11\/12\/gotta-go-hoover-talking-seal\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamez.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}