{"id":2597,"date":"2011-01-19T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:09:56","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/and-now-for-something-completely-irrelevant\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now For Something Completely Irrelevant"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Gentleman’s Magazine<\/a>, September 1744.<\/p>\n

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Here lies then old Nick, as dead as a herring,
\nFull famous he was his flock of teeth for transferring
\nFrom his jaws to his shoes; that went things e’er so bad
\nHe was sure, at each turn, to hit the nail o’ the head.
\nIf a grave call’d to dig, he no plea cou’d alledge,
\nFor as well as his spade, he his teeth set on edge.
\nIf the hounds to maintain he the parish must lead,
\nSuch a spur in the heel was worth two in the head.
\nNo doubt but this scheme his brains had a hand in;
\nHow else shou’d his teeth become understanding?
\nAs the heroes of old fell in battle renown’d,
\nHe cou’d stand on his feet, yet, like them, bite the ground.
\nBut the biter is bitten; that wrestler, old death,
\nTooth and nail fell aboard him, and beat out his breath,
\nThen tript up his heels \u2014 in the spite of his teeth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of my favorite epitaphs. Not that I have a huge stock of them, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Gentleman’s Magazine, September 1744. Here lies then old Nick, as dead as a herring, Full famous he was his flock of teeth for transferring From his jaws to his shoes; that went things e’er so bad He was sure, at each turn, to hit the nail o’ the head. If a grave call’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}