{"id":16646,"date":"2017-06-18T14:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2017-06-18T14:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T19:57:59","slug":"the-depth-and-breadth-of-noggleian-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/18\/the-depth-and-breadth-of-noggleian-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Depth and Breadth of Noggleian Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was talking with my beautiful wife about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ludwig_Wittgenstein\" target=\"_new\">Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/a> this morning, as I just heard a lecture on him in the (long) Great Ideas in Philosophy lecture series I&#8217;m working through (now, almost within 10% of completion!).<\/p>\n<p>I told her how I had difficulty because every time the lecturer said his name, I&#8217;d miss a couple of lines because I&#8217;d repeat the pronunciation of the name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vitgunsteen,&#8221; I repeated to her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vitgunstine,&#8221; she corrected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s his progeny who pronounce it VitgunSTEEN to distance themselves from the mad doctor,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nxxSIX3fmmo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mel Brooks mashed up with 20th century idealist philosophers.<\/p>\n<p>When you see me smiling at nothing, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was talking with my beautiful wife about Ludwig Wittgenstein this morning, as I just heard a lecture on him in the (long) Great Ideas in Philosophy lecture series I&#8217;m working through (now, almost within 10% of completion!). I told her how I had difficulty because every time the lecturer said his name, I&#8217;d [&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-16646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646","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=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16647,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions\/16647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}