{"id":557,"date":"2009-12-20T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T08:34:41","slug":"i-feel-like-christopher-colombus-damn-you-leif-erikson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/12\/i-feel-like-christopher-colombus-damn-you-leif-erikson\/","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Like Christopher Colombus. Damn You Leif Erikson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/dan_brown_lost_symbol1.jpg\" alt=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" title=\"dan_brown_lost_symbol\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" style=\"margin-right:8px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-490\" \/><\/a> Thanks to my blogprietor, Mr. Clark Randt, I have been informed that I am not the first person to live blog <strong>The Lost Symbol<\/strong>.  I am devastated, naturally. But, in many ways, I am also relieved.  <\/p>\n<p>Maureen Johnson&#8217;s version of <strong>The Lost Symbol<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/maureenjohnson.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/lost-symbol-readers-guide-part-four.html\">Reader&#8217;s Guide<\/a> is not only more entertaining than the book itself, but more entertaining than the Great Dan Brown Experiment.  I urge all of you to continue reading hers.<\/p>\n<p>I reached the end of my experiment earlier than I expected, but I still walk away having gained quite a lot.  I have a better appreciation of our nation&#8217;s capitol.  If I am ever faced with needing to decipher a secret masonic message, I will be able to do so in a jiffy.  I have the confidence to wear make up in public even though I am a man.  After <strong>The Lost Symbol<\/strong>, people will not dare make fun of me for fear that I am a tattooed zealot, and, should they cross me, I may drown them next to a giant squid in a vat of ethanol.  <\/p>\n<p>And I have learned that there is no need to actually write a blog.  I can just think up ideas, do a google search, and link to someone who wrote about the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Come back next week, when I live blog my way through my nephew&#8217;s Bar Mitzva*.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Jeff Orcutt, who loaned me his copy of <strong>The Lost Symbol<\/strong>.  Sorry about the drool.  <\/p>\n<p>*I do not actually have a Jewish nephew.  If anyone knows of a Bar Mitzva I can crash next week, please let me know.<\/p>\n<h5>Pages read: 202 <br \/>\nPages To Go: 0<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to my blogprietor, Mr. Clark Randt, I have been informed that I am not the first person to live blog The Lost Symbol. I am devastated, naturally. But, in many ways, I am also relieved. Maureen Johnson&#8217;s version of The Lost Symbol Reader&#8217;s Guide is not only more entertaining than the book itself, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[599,597,423,598,595,596,421,197],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-bar-mitzva","tag-clark-randt","tag-dan-brown","tag-jeff-orcut","tag-mason","tag-maureen-johnson","tag-the-lost-symbol","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2752,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/2752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}