{"id":919,"date":"2008-03-21T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=919"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:02:15","slug":"transman-in-heinz-baked-beans-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/03\/21\/transman-in-heinz-baked-beans-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Transman in Heinz baked beans ad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m probably really behind the curve here, but here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THYDLwR9sEE\">British ad<\/a> for Heinz Beans. I like that the transman seems confident, relaxed and happy, while the bio man&#8217;s head looks like it&#8217;s going to explode. His confusion and trans-related anxiety seems to be the butt of the joke more than anything. Your sex may change, but never your love for baked beans.<\/p>\n<p>The transman&#8217;s self-ID as Christine rings false, though.\u00a0Even though he says, &#8220;It&#8217;s Christine!&#8221;, it&#8217;s NOT Christine. It USED TO BE Christine. Now it&#8217;s whatever his current name is. If I were in that situation, I would say something like, &#8220;Hi, [FormerClassmate]! I&#8217;m [MyName]! We went to school together.&#8221; Then I would talk generally from that commonality and explain a bit later that I used to be [MyFormerName] if [FormerClassmate] was still confused about how he knew me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m probably really behind the curve here, but here&#8217;s a British ad for Heinz Beans. I like that the transman seems confident, relaxed and happy, while the bio man&#8217;s head looks like it&#8217;s going to explode. His confusion and trans-related anxiety seems to be the butt of the joke more than anything. Your sex&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/03\/21\/transman-in-heinz-baked-beans-ad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transman in Heinz baked beans ad.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[702],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trans-yay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}