{"id":66,"date":"2010-07-30T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/?p=66"},"modified":"2023-07-13T20:45:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T01:45:53","slug":"the-me-me-gametheme-me-gamethe-me-mega-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/30\/the-me-me-gametheme-me-gamethe-me-mega-me\/","title":{"rendered":"the me me game\/theme me game\/the me mega me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight responses to eight questions posed by Dave over at <a title=\"Via Negativa - Eight Questions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vianegativa.us\/2010\/07\/eight-questions\/\">Via Negativa<\/a>&#8211;nicely done, Dave! My responses can&#8217;t possibly\u00a0measure up.\u00a0 My own questions follow the set.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is half a stone still a whole stone?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the heart is hard it doesn&#8217;t matter how whole it is.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do grains of sand get tired of being recycled into mountains?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No.\u00a0 You can tell when grains of sand get tired because they relax into one another, becoming glass.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you crossed a bat with a mushroom, would you get an umbrella?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why, yes.\u00a0 Or a broom.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do the glasses one wears in a dream require a prescription?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You wear glasses in your dreams?\u00a0 In my dreams, I have perfect vision.\u00a0 Making up, of course, for the fact that I cannot run, speak, appear in a classroom on time and fully clothed, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What songs do they sing in a school without windows?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sea chanteys.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do the daisies love us or not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails. (Translation:\u00a0 What&#8217;s to love about us?)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is there any reason to believe that we\u2019ll have working mouthparts in the next life?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PT Barnum seemed to think so, if the ones born every minute are indeed reincarnates&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What kind of cartilage connects us to the stars?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mermaid-pound test.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What long-lost love does the moth see in a flame?<\/li>\n<li>Why are there two twelves in a day, but no twenty?<\/li>\n<li>Who is they?<\/li>\n<li>Why do a composition textbook, a replacement headlamp for my car, and one dinner for two all cost about the same amount of money?<\/li>\n<li>Who is minding the store?<\/li>\n<li>Why B-flat?<\/li>\n<li>Where do you go when you aren&#8217;t listening?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight responses to eight questions posed by Dave over at Via Negativa&#8211;nicely done, Dave! My responses can&#8217;t possibly\u00a0measure up.\u00a0 My own questions follow the set. Is half a stone still a whole stone? If the heart is hard it doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/30\/the-me-me-gametheme-me-gamethe-me-mega-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cymbalmonkey.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}