{"id":413095,"date":"2020-05-02T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=413095"},"modified":"2020-05-02T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:22:17","slug":"the-pettifog-with-apologies-to-lewis-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=413095","title":{"rendered":"The Pettifog (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2019Twas noisome, and the silly trolls<br \/>\nDid sputter and spew away:<br \/>\nAll in a tizzy were the bored droves,<br \/>\nAnd the moderates were outraged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeware the Pettifog, my son!<br \/>\nThe cliches so trite, the phrases that catch!<br \/>\nBeware the cultish blurb, and shun<br \/>\nThe furious righteousness!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He typed his verbal word by hand;<br \/>\nLong time the tiresome foe he fought\u2014<br \/>\nSo chewed he did Tums times three<br \/>\nAs he gathered up his thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>And, as in pensive thought he sat,<br \/>\nThe Pettifog, with just one aim,<br \/>\ntyped clatteringly on the keyboard pad,<br \/>\nAnd showed it had no shame!<\/p>\n<p>Such pap! Such crap! So keys he tapped,<br \/>\nThe cutting word through bullshit sliced!<br \/>\nThe ruse was slain, but it rose again,<br \/>\nUnaware of its own demise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd hast thou debunked the Pettifog?<br \/>\nThe Hydra&#8217;s head, that grows two new!<br \/>\nO such futility! Where&#8217;s the utility?\u201d<br \/>\nHe despaired of what to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Twas noisome, and the silly trolls<br \/>\nDid sputter and spew away:<br \/>\nAll in a tizzy were the bored droves,<br \/>\nAnd the moderates were outraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2019Twas noisome, and the silly trolls Did sputter and spew away: All in a tizzy were the bored droves, And the moderates were outraged. \u201cBeware the Pettifog, my son! The cliches so trite, the phrases that catch! Beware the cultish blurb, and shun The furious righteousness!\u201d He typed his verbal word by hand; Long time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[39],"tags":[31951,31953,955,31952],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413096,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413095\/revisions\/413096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}