{"id":133,"date":"2005-12-16T07:55:21","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T07:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2005-12-16T07:55:21","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T07:55:21","slug":"dusting-off-quotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Dusting off quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept a Commonplace of favorite bits for many years, mixing stuff in many different registers and various media. There&#8217;s a shoebox with 5 x 8 cards and less uniform scraps of paper (the oldest from, oh, 40-odd years ago), entries in various journals, a <a href=\"http:\/\/oook.info\/xliberty\/quotes.html\">Web 1.0 gatheration<\/a>&#8230; and I feel the thumbs itching to create something more 2.x in nature and style, but I haven&#8217;t quite divined its outlines. This one, from <b>Alice in Wonderland<\/b>, bubbled to the top this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?<br \/>\nThe Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to<br \/>\nAlice: I don&#8217;t much care where.<br \/>\nThe Cat: Then it doesn&#8217;t much matter which way you go.<br \/>\nAlice: \u2026so long as I get somewhere.<br \/>\nThe Cat: Oh, you&#8217;re sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems that such bits should be tagged for easier retrieval, or maybe assembled into a complex topography of time and subject&#8230; Any thoughts out there about novel ways to proceed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve kept a Commonplace of favorite bits for many years, mixing stuff in many different registers and various media. There&#8217;s a shoebox with 5 x 8 cards and less uniform scraps of paper (the oldest from, oh, 40-odd years ago), entries in various journals, a Web 1.0 gatheration&#8230; and I feel the thumbs itching to [&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":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}