{"id":301,"date":"2006-09-18T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/09\/18\/its-hard-to-wreck-a-nice-face\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T19:41:10","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T08:41:10","slug":"its-hard-to-wreck-a-nice-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/09\/18\/its-hard-to-wreck-a-nice-face\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s hard to wreck a nice face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another reason why I don&#8217;t need to put up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/12\/08\/why-no-author-photo\/\">Author photograph<\/a>. You can just imagine me from my description!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just been playing with a free Beta version of some <a href=\"http:\/\/myheritage.com\">facial recognition software<\/a>. You upload some photos, it picks out the faces and tries to match them against the ones in its database.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, the database mainly has celebrities in it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, my recent photos show that I am a dead ringer for <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=Adrien+Brody\">Adrien Brody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=Clark+Gable\">Clark Gable<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About four years ago &#8211; according to the software at least &#8211;  I looked more like  <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=Jose+Carreras\">Jose Carreras<\/a>&#8230; aged about 60. Hmmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It gets worse, though. <\/p>\n<p>About 14 years ago, I apparently looked more like <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=Catherine+Deneuve\">this celebrity<\/a>. [Note: It&#8217;s only a link to Google, but may be NSFW.]<\/p>\n<p>It looks like I will be labelling my own photos for a while yet&#8230; and probably moderating the comments on this post heavily too, if I am any judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I am a dead ringer for <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=Adrien+Brody\">Adrien Brody<\/a>&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=Clark+Gable\">Clark Gable<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,30,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroic-failures","category-humour","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}