{"id":122,"date":"2006-12-06T22:16:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:15:07","slug":"lemony-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2006\/12\/06\/lemony-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemony Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI&#8217;m not going to lie. I read children&#8217;s books. I <em>enjoy<\/em> reading children&#8217;s books. And I am not ashamed. I am so not ashamed that I made myself a shirt:\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/QuietTShirt.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of the Lemony-Snicket-related t-shirt I had made: It says &#039;The world is quiet here&#039;.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe line is the motto of a secret organization of noble volunteers in the <i>Series of Unfortunate Events<\/i> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonysnicket.com\/\">Lemony Snicket<\/a>. It is also, incidentally, eerily reminiscent of the first line of a <a href=\"http:\/\/rpo.library.utoronto.ca\/poem\/2084.html\">poem by Swinburne<\/a> that Snicket quoted in the tenth book.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt seems that my girlfriend Emmy is also not (entirely) ashamed of my reading habits. About two weeks ago, we went to paint pottery at a place here in Cambridge. I painted a thoroughly unartistic and unimpressive teacup, but Emmy made me the loveliest mug I&#8217;ve ever seen:\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/MugFront.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of the front of the mug Emmy made me, which says &quot;Michael&#039;s Unfortunate Mug.&quot;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/MugBack.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of the back of the mug Emmy made me, which shows stylized eyes.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDoesn&#8217;t she rock?\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: The Gothic Archies, <i>Smile! No One Cares How You Feel<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to lie. I read children&#8217;s books. I enjoy reading children&#8217;s books. And I am not ashamed. I am so not ashamed that I made myself a shirt: The line is the motto of a secret organization of noble volunteers in the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It is also, incidentally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}