{"id":204,"date":"2008-08-19T13:17:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-08-19T13:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T19:17:23","slug":"im-proud-to-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m proud to announce&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that I have never read <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I suffered through another one of that hack&#8217;s book once, on my honeymoon in 2005. I started reading it on the plane from Chicago to Boston then to Keflavik and finally to London. When I finally finished <em>Digital Fortress<\/em>, I threw it across our hotel room near Kensington High Street and loudly proclaimed that Dan Brown was the worst hackjob of a writer that I had ever been tortured with, and that includes wading through the miasma of a rural Georga public school education. I&#8217;m fairly certain I also yelled that we should shut off BBC 4, don our jackboots and head down to the corner Sainbury&#8217;s for more lager and a curry takeaway on the way back.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/000844.html\" target=\"_self\">I&#8217;m not the only one<\/a> that thinks Mr. Brown writes like two shits in a biscuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that I have never read The Da Vinci Code. I suffered through another one of that hack&#8217;s book once, on my honeymoon in 2005. I started reading it on the plane from Chicago to Boston then to Keflavik and finally to London. When I finally finished Digital Fortress, I threw it across our hotel room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}