{"id":38,"date":"2005-05-26T20:57:58","date_gmt":"2005-05-27T01:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=38"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:55:35","slug":"interesting-locution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Locution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to rumors of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#146;s demise, Will Collier of <a href=\"http:\/\/vodkapundit.com\/archives\/007845.php\">VodkaPundit<\/a> writes &#147;I certainly <em>hope<\/em> the murderous son of a bitch is assuming room temperature in Hell&#148;. And what temperature would that be? I suppose it depends on the room. A toasty 475&#176; F. or so, to broil Zarqawi to a nice golden brown? Or something more thermonuclear, like 8,540&#176; F.? (If I&#146;ve understood it correctly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/nuke\/intro\/nuke\/thermal.htm  \">this site<\/a> gives 5,000 Kelvin as the temperature of a typical nuclear explosion, and that comes to roughly 8,540&#176; Fahrenheit.) Or would &#147;room temperature in Hell&#148; be icy cold, as depicted in Dante&#146;s <em>Inferno<\/em>? As I recall (it&#146;s been a while), what Dante and Vergil find at the bottom of Hell&#146;s pit is three-headed Satan, encased in ice up to his waist and chewing on Judas, Brutus, and Cassius with his three mouths. Which raises an interesting question: after the events of the last hundred years, if not before, have Brutus and Cassius been demoted to ordinary lowest-circle traitors and replaced in Satan&#146;s extra mouths by more recent arrivals? By today&#146;s standards, they would find it difficult to make the junior varsity team of great criminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to rumors of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#146;s demise, Will Collier of VodkaPundit writes &#147;I certainly hope the murderous son of a bitch is assuming room temperature in Hell&#148;. And what temperature would that be? I suppose it depends on the room. A toasty 475&#176; F. or so, to broil Zarqawi to a nice golden brown? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}