{"id":87580,"date":"2020-06-05T16:48:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=87580"},"modified":"2020-06-28T06:41:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:41:58","slug":"humor-and-other-depressing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/humor-and-other-depressing-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Humor and other depressing things"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little joke<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A man visiting the Kotel – Western Wall – noted an old man praying diligently, all day. He was there every day. Finally [he] went to the old man and asked “What do you pray for”? “For world peace, harmony, the brotherhood of man…”<\/p>\n

“Do you get a response”?<\/p>\n

“No. It’s like I’m talking to a wall.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Via J Greely<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Joseph Moore recommends<\/a> a little booklet<\/a> about some aspects of the CCP virus by a former NY Times<\/em> writer. The substance won’t be new to those who’ve been following William Briggs, but it’s a handy compendium of information you probably won’t see in your newspaper.<\/p>\n

There is a certain<\/a> slogan<\/a> popular today that will not be appearing on this website.<\/p>\n

Just wondering: is the final stage of every form of government kakistocracy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little joke: A man visiting the Kotel – Western Wall – noted an old man praying diligently, all day. He was there every day. Finally [he] went to the old man and asked “What do you pray for”? “For world peace, harmony, the brotherhood of man…” “Do you get a response”? “No. It’s like … Continue reading “Humor and other depressing things”<\/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":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-mMA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87580","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=87580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87589,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87580\/revisions\/87589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}