{"id":19308,"date":"2018-01-15T08:04:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19308"},"modified":"2018-01-15T08:04:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T14:04:53","slug":"also-florid-and-mockable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/15\/also-florid-and-mockable\/","title":{"rendered":"Also Florid and Mockable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading <a href=\"https:\/\/donsurber.blogspot.com\/2018\/01\/things-journalists-believe-that-are.html\" target=\"_new\">this post<\/a> by Don Surber, I came across this oft-repeated nostrum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pen is mightier than the sword.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By Edward Bulwer-Lyton (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_sword\" target=\"_new\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>You know the <em>other<\/em> quote Edward Bulwer-Lyton is known for?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a dark and stormy night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night\" target=\"_new\">more<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The latter has spawned annual <a href=\"http:\/\/bulwer-lytton.com\/\" target=\"_new\">writing contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders if there should be a similar floridly written fiction contest for journalists who think that their keyboards would best an actual tyrant&#8217;s sword, guns, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko\" target=\"_new\">Polonium<\/a>, or if perhaps those in the trade who quote the first Bulwer-Lyton confuse their own egos with &#8220;the pen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/285926\/\" target=\"_new\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading this post by Don Surber, I came across this oft-repeated nostrum: The pen is mightier than the sword. By Edward Bulwer-Lyton (more). You know the other quote Edward Bulwer-Lyton is known for? It was a dark and stormy night. (more.) The latter has spawned annual writing contest. One wonders if there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308","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=19308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19312,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19308\/revisions\/19312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}