{"id":14674,"date":"2015-08-04T07:53:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T12:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14674"},"modified":"2015-08-04T07:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T12:53:30","slug":"another-clue-i-wouldnt-do-well-on-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/04\/another-clue-i-wouldnt-do-well-on-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Clue I Wouldn’t Do Well On Jeopardy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, last night, I’m inspired for a Tweet wherein I would say, “I’m the COTTON MATHER of Software Testing,” and then I think, what was Cotton Mather’s son’s name? It was another noun….<\/p>\n

And I didn’t come up with it quickly. I might not have made it in the thirty seconds you get for Final Jeopardy, which seems like a long time when you know the answer immediately or a really short time if it’s on the tip of your tongue.<\/p>\n

But then it came to me: Increase Mather.<\/em><\/p>\n

Except you, gentle reader, know as well as I do, now that I looked it up to confirm my guess, that Increase Mather<\/a> was Cotton Mather’s father<\/em>, not his son.<\/p>\n

I mean, what kind of intellectual lightweight screws up seventeenth century cleric lineage at ten o’clock on a Monday night? Certainly not someone who’s going deep in Jeopardy!<\/p>\n

I guess it’s just as well that I didn’t get called into an audition this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, last night, I’m inspired for a Tweet wherein I would say, “I’m the COTTON MATHER of Software Testing,” and then I think, what was Cotton Mather’s son’s name? It was another noun…. And I didn’t come up with it quickly. I might not have made it in the thirty seconds you get for Final […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674","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=14674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14676,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions\/14676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}