{"id":159,"date":"2006-01-16T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T09:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2006-01-16T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T09:11:20","slug":"mr-pooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Pooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why has it taken me this long to encounter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorama.com\/diary-of-a-nobody-1.html\">The Diary of a Nobody<\/a> by George and Weedon Grossmith? I stumbled on it via <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2006\/01\/16\/subeditors-not-at-work\/\">a posting to Crooked Timber<\/a> by Chris Bertram, in which he quotes this wonderful example of dudgeon gone awry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems to me that Mr. Pooter (who is, we see, in the public domain) ought to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pepysdiary.com\/archive\/1663\/01\/14\/\">the Pepys treatment<\/a>, and so come to life again in the blogosphere, where he can do the most good.<br \/>\n&#8230;and a few minutes later, thanks to Google, I find that, sure enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/thediaryofanobody.com\/nobody\/rss\/\">somebody has already done it<\/a>! Bless whoever it is, thrice over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why has it taken me this long to encounter The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith? I stumbled on it via a posting to Crooked Timber by Chris Bertram, in which he quotes this wonderful example of dudgeon gone awry: I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in [&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-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}