{"id":2860,"date":"2018-07-27T18:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2018-07-27T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T02:07:14","slug":"general-clap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2018\/07\/27\/general-clap\/","title":{"rendered":"General Clap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I finally discovered that back in May I placed in <a href=\"http:\/\/adamcadre.ac\/18lyttle.html\" title=\"Seriously though, fuck Steven Seagal.\">the 2018 Lyttle Lytton contest<\/a>! Specifically I placed with an entry in the Found division&mdash;just scroll down to where my name is spelled wrong. I am proud even though it&#8217;s not like I wrote anything for it. But the reason the biggest category on this old blog is called &#8220;connections&#8221; is that I still delight in plugging one thing (a bad sentence I read) into another thing (a web site I love).<\/p>\n<p>And there are a lot of connections that really worked for me in this year&#8217;s list! It&#8217;s good company to be in. Not only did another Found winner pull an egregious bit from my most hated episode of one of my all-time favorite shows, but there&#8217;s an entry under the Perennials that recalls my <a href=\"http:\/\/adamcadre.ac\/07lyttle.html\" title=\"Hey, now I know what Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate is!\">first entry<\/a>. There are bullet journal and Engagement Chicken jokes too (hi Kat). But the thing that really rang my bell was seeing a semi-vanished webcomic writer&mdash;someone I still admire&mdash;pop in with a brilliant entry, and Adam Cadre give her a wink and a nod. I don&#8217;t chase the Internet as hard as I used to, but I&#8217;m glad the cool-kid serendipity of a decade ago isn&#8217;t all gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I finally discovered that back in May I placed in the 2018 Lyttle Lytton contest! Specifically I placed with an entry in the Found division&mdash;just scroll down to where my name is spelled wrong. I am proud even though it&#8217;s not like I wrote anything for it. But the reason the biggest category on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,44,14,19,118,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-constrained-writing","category-fame","category-mild-lunacy","category-nostalgia","category-obsessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}