{"id":101,"date":"2008-11-13T08:07:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T13:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/hes-not-dead-hes-pining-for-the-fjords\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T14:14:35","slug":"hes-not-dead-hes-pining-for-the-fjords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/13\/hes-not-dead-hes-pining-for-the-fjords\/","title":{"rendered":"“He’s not dead, he’s pining for the fjords”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turns out that Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch wasn’t really groundbreaking. For it’s time, maybe. But it turns out that there’s a similar joke from the 4th century in Greece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…a joke where a man complains that a slave he was sold had died.<\/p>\n

“When he was with me, he never did any such thing!” is the reply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still love ’em, even if they were beat to the punch line by about 1500 years. Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turns out that Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch wasn’t really groundbreaking. For it’s time, maybe. But it turns out that there’s a similar joke from the 4th century in Greece. …a joke where a man complains that a slave he was sold had died. “When he was with me, he never did any such thing!” … Continue reading ““He’s not dead, he’s pining for the fjords””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,88],"tags":[325,326,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}