{"id":168338,"date":"2022-11-10T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=168338"},"modified":"2022-11-16T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T12:40:15","slug":"a-new-one-a-true-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-new-one-a-true-one\/","title":{"rendered":"A new one, a true one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some inexplicable reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/drboli.com\/2022\/11\/10\/if-i-had-a-time-machine\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irving Vanderblock-Wheedle&#8217;s verse<\/a> today reminded me of the begining of Lord Byron&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/21700\/21700-h\/21700-h.htm#2H_4_0002\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Juan<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want a hero: an uncommon want,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;..<\/span>When every year and month sends forth a new one,<br \/>\nTill, after cloying the gazettes with cant,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;..<\/span>The age discovers he is not the true one;<br \/>\nOf such as these I should not care to vaunt,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;..<\/span>I\u2019ll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan\u2014<br \/>\nWe all have seen him, in the pantomime,<br \/>\nSent to the devil somewhat ere his time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some inexplicable reason, Irving Vanderblock-Wheedle&#8217;s verse today reminded me of the begining of Lord Byron&#8217;s Don Juan. I want a hero: an uncommon want, &#8230;..When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, &#8230;..The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-new-one-a-true-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new one, a true one&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-HN8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168338"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168345,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168338\/revisions\/168345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}