{"id":581,"date":"2010-07-27T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2010-07-27T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:20:36","slug":"a-little-levity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/a-little-levity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Levity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Things have been getting a little serious, what with this Stepping in the Same River business and Musings on Gurgi , so I’m going to add a little levity.\u00a0 I was just reading the funny phrases on the back cover of my notebook, and I thought I’d share some of the faves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don’t know.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not, like, a professional smellologist.”\u00a0 — Dick Casablancas on Veronica Mars<\/em><\/p>\n

“…and he doesn’t demand apologies from people who criticize him, because what is there to criticize?”\u00a0 — Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!<\/em> Host Peter Sagol, on Carl Kassel<\/p>\n

(or is it Karl Cassel?\u00a0 And am I going to be divorced for not knowing?)<\/p>\n

“I had to be very mature and very tolerant, and those are not my usual qualities.”\u00a0 — Someone Benedictus, on the experience of writing a new Winnie the Pooh Story<\/p>\n

“Milkshakes!”\u00a0 Ariana snapped to attention.\u00a0 “Double back.\u00a0 We need to get some milkshakes.”\u00a0 — New York Times <\/em>Article on driving the Oregon Fruit Loop, where you can get fresh cherries<\/p>\n

“Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!”<\/p>\n

–From Emma Thompson’s Golden Globe acceptance speech, in the style of\u00a0Jane Austen, for adapting\u00a0Sense and Sensibility<\/em><\/p>\n

I hope you enjoyed.\u00a0 They certainly cheered me up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things have been getting a little serious, what with this Stepping in the Same River business and Musings on Gurgi , so I’m going to add a little levity.\u00a0 I was just reading the funny phrases on the back cover of my notebook, and I thought I’d share some of the faves.\u00a0 “I don’t know.\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":584,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}