{"id":516,"date":"2006-01-07T23:31:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T21:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=516"},"modified":"2006-01-08T00:58:31","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T22:58:31","slug":"maybe-you-had-to-be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Maybe you had to be there.<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I caught the spine of one of Tage’s books out of the corner of my eye, and the title took me by surprise. It took me a second or two to process it, but then it struck me as outrageously funny and I couldn’t stop laughing for minutes, at least.<\/p>\n

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Olof, of course, asked what I was laughing at, so I picked up the book and showed him. He didn’t get it. I ran through a quick history of Thomas Aquinas and his proofs of the existence of God<\/a> (in particular, the first proof), but he remained stone-faced. I expounded further on the many reasons that us having a children’s book entitled “First Movers” would be uproariously funny, but he was altogether unconvinced. Guess my past as a history\/religion major is showing. I could have killed<\/i> with this story in college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I caught the spine of one of Tage’s books out of the corner of my eye, and the title took me by surprise. It took me a second or two to process it, but then it struck me as outrageously funny and I couldn’t stop laughing for minutes, at least. Olof, of… Read More Maybe you had to be there.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}