{"id":590,"date":"2005-01-26T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/01\/26\/grumpy-tim-coe-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-09T11:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:14:29","slug":"grumpy-tim-coe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/2005\/01\/26\/grumpy-tim-coe-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy Tim Coe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grumpy Tim Coe finds a Platonic form on his porch.  It&#8217;s The Circle.  It&#8217;s glassy white.  Its edge is sharp as nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Grumpy Tim Coe shows The Circle to some scientists.  &#8220;Harrumph,&#8221; they say.  &#8220;Mere philosophy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He shows it to some philosophers.  &#8220;Oh,&#8221; they say, &#8220;the concrete is for artists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He shows it to some artists.  &#8220;A meaningless exercise in form,&#8221; they say.  &#8220;Go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grumpy Tim Coe goes home.  He takes The Circle out to his back yard.  He sets it on a stump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Am I not justified?&#8221; he asks the world, grumpily, and then smashes it with a bat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grumpy Tim Coe finds a Platonic form on his porch. It&#8217;s The Circle. It&#8217;s glassy white. Its edge is sharp as nothing. Grumpy Tim Coe shows The Circle to some scientists. &#8220;Harrumph,&#8221; they say. &#8220;Mere philosophy.&#8221; He shows it to some philosophers. &#8220;Oh,&#8221; they say, &#8220;the concrete is for artists.&#8221; He shows it to some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[913],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grumpy-tim-coe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/anacrusis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}