{"id":239,"date":"2006-07-16T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=239"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:43:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:43:45","slug":"things-that-warm-my-cold-cold-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Things That Warm My Cold, Cold Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Reading Juan Cole’s warm recommendation of magic mushrooms<\/a>. That would explain a lot. All his commenters — or at least all those whose comments he approved — agree with him.<\/li>\n
  2. Misreading two lines in a Chicagoboyz<\/a> post, a review of a book on the fall of the Roman Empire. They give the table of contents, which includes these lines:
    \n      1. Romans 3
    \n      2. Barbarians 46
    \nI couldn’t help reading that as a football score — Romans 3, Barbarians 46 — which is not a bad summary of the worst part of the fifth century.<\/li>\n
  3. Finding Opera Quae Fuperfunt<\/em> as a title in the ABE Books<\/a> data base.<\/li>\n
  4. While still half-asleep at 6:40 am yesterday, I thought of a good title for a novel about a decadent esthete with an NRA membership: Molon La-Bàs<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reading Juan Cole’s warm recommendation of magic mushrooms. That would explain a lot. All his commenters — or at least all those whose comments he approved — agree with him. Misreading two lines in a Chicagoboyz post, a review of a book on the fall of the Roman Empire. They give the table of contents, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}