{"id":794,"date":"2007-09-28T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/09\/i-think-therefore-i-ham\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T14:54:00","slug":"i-think-therefore-i-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/i-think-therefore-i-ham\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think, Therefore I Ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A little song, a little dance<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">A little seltzer in your pants.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8211;The late <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twiztv.com\/scripts\/attic\/marytylermooreshow-607.txt\">Chuckles the Clown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was just nominated for my first blogging award!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genrecookshop.com\/\">NancyBea<\/a> has picked me as a &#8220;Thinking Blogger.&#8221;  I will confess, there are times when I really do think as I write this blog.  But not <a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/thinkaward-778371.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/susansenator.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/thinkaward-778361.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>always.  My other writing is a combination of material fresh from the heart, channeled through my mind, like wine set to age in an oaken barrel.  (That&#8217;s not to say I am wooden-headed.)  But my blog is mostly blood-fed, just from the heart and not censored or edited very much.  I write it for me, and I hope, for you.  I hope it helps, rather than hurts.  I am a true believer in Tikkun Olam, a Jewish phrase for &#8220;Healing the World.&#8221;  It is up to every single person to find their own special, unique way that they make things a little better, rather than worse.  Being a Lazy Libra, I do what comes easiest:  sit on my ass and write stuff that is honest, true, and hopefully funny.<\/p>\n<p>I would nominate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nedbatchelder.com\/blog\/\">Neddy Sweets&#8217; Blog<\/a>.  He is one of the biggest thinkers I know.  Intellectual sparring is our foreplay.  Or one form, anyway.  Ah, the life of the mind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little song, a little danceA little seltzer in your pants.&#8211;The late Chuckles the Clown I was just nominated for my first blogging award! NancyBea has picked me as a &#8220;Thinking Blogger.&#8221; I will confess, there are times when I really do think as I write this blog. But not always. My other writing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-cO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}