{"id":1198,"date":"2004-07-28T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2018-08-13T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:44:55","slug":"1198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/28\/1198\/","title":{"rendered":"Lileks Embraces Noggle Apocalypse Investment Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks, in a Back Fence column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/804\/4887426.html\" target=\"new\">embraces the Noggle Apocalypse Investment Strategy<\/a> when describing what&#8217;s in his bug-out box:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Half a dozen liquor miniatures. Only for bartering purposes, mind you. The dollar may be worthless, and we may be reduced to swapping as we fight our way to Fargo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Halt! To pass you must pay the toll. What have you to offer, stranger?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, I have, uh, a pelt -&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where? I see no pelt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, the dog&#8217;s wearing it right now, but &#8211; hey, I have these little bottles of hooch. And I&#8217;ll toss in some waterproof matches, only used once.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, the Noggle Apocalypse Investment Strategy promotes three investments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Arable land somewhere isolated.<\/b><br \/>So you can grow enough food for you, your concubines with which you&#8217;re going to repopulate the human race, and the optional cult of followers.\n<li><b>Guns.<\/b><br \/>So you can defend your land from interlopers and your concubines from other alpha males in your cult of followers.\n<li><b>Liquor.<\/b><br \/>So you can trade something besides other alpha male pelts with the neighboring cults.  Hopefully, they&#8217;ll have something other than pelts or liquor to trade.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lileks, in a Back Fence column, embraces the Noggle Apocalypse Investment Strategy when describing what&#8217;s in his bug-out box: Half a dozen liquor miniatures. Only for bartering purposes, mind you. The dollar may be worthless, and we may be reduced to swapping as we fight our way to Fargo. &#8220;Halt! To pass you must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23016,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/23016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}