{"id":123,"date":"2006-10-12T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T14:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2006-10-12T09:09:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T14:09:03","slug":"please-forgive-this-interruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Please Forgive This Interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heading off to vacation, so it may be more than a week before my next post.<\/p>\n

I can forgive myself, so I hope you can too. In the meantime, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll leave you with three things.<\/p>\n

1. For those who need a little boost of morale:The popularity dialer<\/a> can call you when you specify, and beg you to come out and party.<\/p>\n

2. An old headline and story<\/a>. It shocked people at the time, but deserves to be remembered because nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s changed. This is where I draw the line at cultural relativity.
\nAn antique post of mine; stolen from whyohwhy, added to, and edited:<\/p>\n

3. This is from James Boswell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journal, dated April 13th, 1763:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I should have mentioned last night that I met with a monstrous big whore in the Strand, whom I had a great curiosity to lubricate, as the saying is. I went into a tavern with her, where she displayed to me all the parts of her enormous carcass; but I found that her avarice was as large as her A, for she would by no means take what I offered her.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

I remember another quote of his where he mentioned that he had chatted with a prostitute for a while, then told her that he had no money, but would really appreciate a freebie. Which she gave him.<\/p>\n

For the curious and the Godly: Boswell supposedly experienced the thrill of venereal disease something like twenty times.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know how they cured VD back then. Did they? Otherwise, it was just lots of different types of VD and lots of different\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flare-ups?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heading off to vacation, so it may be more than a week before my next post. I can forgive myself, so I hope you can too. In the meantime, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll leave you with three things. 1. For those who need a little boost of morale:The popularity dialer can call you when you specify, and beg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-famous-people","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}