{"id":82518,"date":"2020-07-14T00:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T00:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/gregp-3534\/2017\/06\/22\/metaphor-alert-buzzfeeds-nyc-office-is-infested-with-bed-bugs\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T00:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T00:19:44","slug":"metaphor-alert-buzzfeeds-nyc-office-is-infested-with-bed-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/82518","title":{"rendered":"METAPHOR ALERT: BuzzFeed’s NYC office is infested with bed bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\"> I feel like this is a metaphor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KtCHX7IePT\">https:\/\/t.co\/KtCHX7IePT<\/a> <p>&mdash; J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrsalzman\/status\/877939306089893889\">June 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>  <p>If you were to compare BuzzFeed to a dirty motel that you’re too scared to look at what’s on the bedspread with a black light, you’d be correct: <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\"> Well then. Bed bugs detected at BuzzFeed NYC HQ. Fumigation happening tomorrow, employees asked to WFH &quot;out of abundance of caution&quot; <p>&mdash; Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/perlberg\/status\/877739762664321024\">June 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>  <p>But we must credit BuzzFeed’s own Steven Perlberg for reporting on his own filthy work conditions: <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\"> I&#039;m the media reporter! <p>&mdash; Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/perlberg\/status\/877741883967102981\">June 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>  <p>More reporting from inside the office: <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\"> SCOOP: the BuzzFeed bedbugs were detected on the 14th floor, a source still in the building tells me <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bugsfeed?src=hash\">#bugsfeed<\/a> <p>&mdash; Julia Reinstein (@juliareinstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/juliareinstein\/status\/877906746538328064\">June 22, 2017<\/a><\/p> <p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\"> I regret googling &quot;can bed bugs live in computers?&quot; <p>&mdash; Joanna Borns (@robotics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robotics\/status\/877940038964727810\">June 22, 2017<\/a><\/p> <p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\"> i workshopped some jokes about the bedbugs do you want to hear them <p>&mdash; Ellen Cushing (@elcush) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elcush\/status\/877755506525261824\">June 22, 2017<\/a><\/p> <div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-3\" style=\"float:left\"> <div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_1\" class=\"ad-300x250\">  googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display(“div-gpt-300x250_1”); }); <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/p><\/blockquote><\/p><\/blockquote><\/p><\/blockquote><\/p><\/blockquote><\/p><\/blockquote><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1594611944689-bedbug_ap.jpg\" \/><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/gregp-3534\/2017\/06\/22\/metaphor-alert-buzzfeeds-nyc-office-is-infested-with-bed-bugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/gregp-3534\/2017\/06\/22\/metaphor-alert-buzzfeeds-nyc-office-is-infested-with-bed-bugs\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like this is a metaphor. https:\/\/t.co\/KtCHX7IePT &mdash; J.R. Salzman (@jrsalzman) June 22, 2017 If you were to compare BuzzFeed to a dirty motel that you’re too scared to look at what’s on the bedspread with a black light, you’d be correct: Well then. Bed bugs detected at BuzzFeed NYC HQ. Fumigation happening tomorrow, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/82518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">METAPHOR ALERT: BuzzFeed’s NYC office is infested with bed bugs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":82519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[409],"tags":[52037,2554],"class_list":["post-82518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-bed-bugs","tag-buzzfeed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/15946119468745-bedbug_ap.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}