{"id":1493,"date":"2024-04-03T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manzodakota.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:30:52","slug":"who-is-that-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/who-is-that-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is that guy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently down in the area of Freehold, NJ, and decided to take a look around. Part of it was some real estate research &#8211; there were some affordable homes on the market (seen on Zillow), and Freehold is not far from the beach, but I had never been there before and thought I&#8217;d look around.<\/p>\n<p>As I was walking down Broadway (also known as Route 79), I saw this on the side of the road, and thought: who is that guy? I believe it&#8217;s a gas meter, or perhaps a gas regulator, but someone has attached some plastic &#8220;googly eyes&#8221; in just the right place, which along with the suggestion of a nose, a neck, and some broad shoulders, makes for a little man standing guard on Broadway. One could further analyze the anatomy of this figure and suggest some other body parts, but I&#8217;ll let it go and let you consider it for yourself here below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_323\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gas-plumbing-with-googly-eyes.jpg\" alt=\"gas plumbing with googly eyes in Freehold NJ\" width=\"850\" height=\"826\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gas plumbing figure with googly eyes in Freehold, NJ.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently down in the area of Freehold, NJ, and decided to take a look around. Part of it was some real estate research &#8211; there were some affordable homes on the market (seen on Zillow), and Freehold is not far from the beach, but I had never been there before and thought I&#8217;d &#8230; <a title=\"Who is that guy?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/who-is-that-guy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who is that guy?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,36],"tags":[311,316,323,336,377,792],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-found-art","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-freehold-nj","tag-funny-face","tag-gas-meter","tag-googly-eyes","tag-humor","tag-whimsical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}