{"id":6961,"date":"2007-09-06T08:44:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T12:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6961"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:15:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:15:01","slug":"its-not-too-late-to-whip-it-whip-it-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6961","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I was trying to sort through the stupid Zen-koan-ass logical problem.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badnewshughes.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/diary-of-things-that-are-awesome-sleepy.html\">Patrick got a new tattoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some no-fun-havin&#8217; pee-hole asked me, &#8220;Is that band actually that big an influence in your life that you got a tattoo of them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It took me a minute to come up with an answer, in part because I was trying to sort through the stupid Zen-koan-ass logical problem embedded in the question, but also because I never really thought of Life Influence as being a natural predicate to tattoo design. So in response, I explained how I hate symbolism and meaning, and generally in life instead favor things that are funny and awesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Zen-koan-ass??<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclosure: I admit that my tattoo has meaning.  But I wouldn&#8217;t say it was FRAUGHT with meaning! You don&#8217;t need to read a scholarly paper to understand why I got it.  My skin will not, as Patrick says, &#8220;implode under the metaphorical load&#8221;.  hahahahahahaha)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badnewshughes.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/diary-of-things-that-are-awesome-sleepy.html\">Full post here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick got a new tattoo. Some no-fun-havin&#8217; pee-hole asked me, &#8220;Is that band actually that big an influence in your life that you got a tattoo of them?&#8221; It took me a minute to come up with an answer, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62464,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/62464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}