{"id":162,"date":"2006-03-28T08:14:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/03\/28\/162\/"},"modified":"2006-03-28T08:14:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T13:14:28","slug":"162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/03\/28\/162\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hilariously demented<a href=\"#200603280000\" title=\"Asterisk!\">*<\/a> developers who works on this floor has recently posted a sign in his cube, which reads <i>&#8220;Abandon all hope ye who enter here.&#8221;<\/i>  I, being much cleverer and more handsome,<a href=\"#200603280001\" title=\"Asterisk!\">**<\/a> immediately thought &#8220;ah ha!  This human has printed a corrupted version with the incorrect word order!  The correct phrasing is &#8216;abandon <i>hope all<\/i> ye who enter here.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was so certain of this because my version fits nicely into an iambic pentameter, while his doesn&#8217;t (you can make it fit, but that involves stretching a short vowel to a long syllable and vice versa).  But it turns out neither of us was right:  the Divine Comedy translation which spawned the phrase, by H.F. Cary, actually goes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/abandon-hope-all-ye-who-enter-here.html\" title=\"This is the #1 Google result, so clearly I am the first person to discover as much.  Ever.\">&#8220;<i>All hope abandon<\/i> ye who enter here,&#8221;<\/a> which is much better and still in perfect iambs.  Bah!  Iambs are fickle!  That&#8217;s why I support dactyls.  Want to hear more about the Pro-Dactyl Initiative?  Contact your local poet laureate today.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"200603280000\">*<\/a> Developer may be neither hilarious nor demented.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"200603280001\">**<\/a>  I am very handsome and clever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hilariously demented* developers who works on this floor has recently posted a sign in his cube, which reads &#8220;Abandon all hope ye who enter here.&#8221; I, being much cleverer and more handsome,** immediately thought &#8220;ah ha! This human has printed a corrupted version with the incorrect word order! The correct phrasing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-lunacy","category-real-jobs","category-typos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}