{"id":1059,"date":"2007-04-03T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2007-04-03T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T23:28:39","slug":"wherein-i-ask-the-french-waiter-for-a-cheeseburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Wherein I ask the French waiter for a Cheeseburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote, which <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">Steven<\/a> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/59927\/Happy-April-1st#1640343\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">I glory in my plebeian tastes.<br \/>\nI wallow in the crass, the banal, the mundane.<br \/>\nI feel no shame at all in in cleaving to the middlebrow.<br \/>\nAnd I derive great pleasure and satisfaction from the impotent spluttering of those who think they are my betters.<\/p>\n<p>This is my declaration of independence from the tyranny of pretension and snobbery.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This reminds me of stuff I&#8217;ve <a href=\"?p=27\">said<\/a> <a href=\"?p=1031\">before<\/a>:  I don&#8217;t know why we like it when other people like the stuff we like, or why we lothe it when other people like the stuff we hate.  I don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re wired this way, but we are. <em>Somehow I enjoy my ham sandwich more knowing that you love ham sandwiches too.<\/em> People are funny.<\/p>\n<p>LATER:<\/p>\n<p>A related quote from C.S. Lewis:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, &#8220;What! You too? I thought I was the only one!&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote, which Steven posted here: I glory in my plebeian tastes. I wallow in the crass, the banal, the mundane. I feel no shame at all in in cleaving to the middlebrow. And I derive great pleasure and satisfaction from the impotent spluttering of those who think they are my betters. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}