{"id":5316,"date":"2007-06-07T19:47:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/06\/07\/towards-more-picturesque-speech\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T19:47:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:47:09","slug":"towards-more-picturesque-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/towards-more-picturesque-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Toward more picturesque speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Thog&#8217;s Masterclass<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>`Big boogers of uncertainty were beginning to form.&#8217; (Vernor Vinge, <em>Rainbows End<\/em>, 2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also from <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ansible.co.uk\/a239.html\">Ansible<\/a><\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Martin Morse Wooster was deeply thrilled by junk mail from `a company called Hawthorne Village, which has the Official Lord of the Rings Express Diesel Locomotive. <em>This heirloom quality train \u00e2\u20ac\u201d richly adorned with scenes and characters from the movie trilogy including Elven text and a working headlight on the diesel locomotive \u00e2\u20ac\u201d will have you reliving this epic saga every time the train journeys around the tracks.<\/em> You know, when I mentally visit the rugged, primeval landscape of Middle Earth, I think to myself, &#8220;You know, these trees and rocks are OK. But WHERE are the toy trains?&#8221;&#8216;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Thog&#8217;s Masterclass: `Big boogers of uncertainty were beginning to form.&#8217; (Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End, 2006) Also from Ansible: Martin Morse Wooster was deeply thrilled by junk mail from `a company called Hawthorne Village, which has the Official Lord of the Rings Express Diesel Locomotive. This heirloom quality train \u00e2\u20ac\u201d richly adorned with scenes and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/towards-more-picturesque-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toward more picturesque speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1nK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316","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=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}