{"id":15387,"date":"2016-06-07T19:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15387"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:11:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:11:34","slug":"i-found-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/i-found-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"I Found A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our dojo offers this shirt, which contains a poem:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/awesomeness.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p align = \"center\">A<br \/>\nWe<br \/>\nSo<br \/>\nMe<br \/>\nNess<\/p>\n<p>One of the knocks against Elliot Ness (of the Untouchables) was that he often took credit for other people&#8217;s work, especially in the popular culture (see the films) and in bar rooms wherever he lived.  So this poem excoriates that flaw in his character.  But I don&#8217;t understand why it&#8217;s on a martial arts shirt.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font> Someone has told me that this shirt is just the word &#8220;Awesomeness.&#8221;  That&#8217;s an interesting theory.  However, I must respectfully disagree, because I HAVE AN ENGLISH DEGREE!  I KNOW A POEM WHEN I SEE IT!  THIS IS A POEM, AND IF YOU WANT TO DISPUTE IT I RECOMMEND YOU SPEND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON A MOSTLY WORTHLESS DEGREE AND WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT IT AT STARBUCKS! BEHIND THE COUNTER!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dojo offers this shirt, which contains a poem: A We So Me Ness One of the knocks against Elliot Ness (of the Untouchables) was that he often took credit for other people&#8217;s work, especially in the popular culture (see the films) and in bar rooms wherever he lived. So this poem excoriates that flaw [&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-15387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387","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=15387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15390,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions\/15390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}