{"id":11400,"date":"2014-03-15T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=11400"},"modified":"2014-03-15T09:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T15:10:09","slug":"efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"One kind of efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been skipping around in The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse<\/a><\/b><\/i> recently. Here’s a bit of practical advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/p>\n

Earth, crowded, cries: “Too many men!”
\nMy counsel is, kill nine in ten,
\nAnd bestow the shares of all
\nOn the remnant decimal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most of the verse is subtler than that \u2014 if an encomium to the London sewer system, for example, can be called “subtle.” If you all are very good, I won’t quote any more of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been skipping around in The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse recently. Here’s a bit of practical advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Earth, crowded, cries: “Too many men!” My counsel is, kill nine in ten, And bestow the shares of all On the remnant decimal. Most of the verse is subtler than that … Continue reading “One kind of efficiency”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2XS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}