{"id":877,"date":"2007-05-30T09:08:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/05\/30\/uncommon\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T15:08:57","slug":"uncommon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila is on another of her &#8220;commonplace&#8221; rampages.<\/p>\n<p>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/archives\/008380.html\">this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a higher and greater standard of principle [than George Washington]. Washington could not lie. I <u>can<\/u> lie but I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>Mark Twain, 1871<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He had the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet; he was also undoubtedly the stupidest; there was little about melancholia he didn&#8217;t know; there was little else that he did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>Auden on Tennyson<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\">Just go and read &#8217;em<\/a>.\u00a0 There&#8217;ll be thousands by the time she&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila is on another of her &#8220;commonplace&#8221; rampages. I love this one: I have a higher and greater standard of principle [than George Washington]. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won&#8217;t. &#8212; Mark Twain, 1871 Oh, and this one: He had the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet; he was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}