{"id":452,"date":"2013-04-26T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2013-04-26T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:57:17","slug":"unfinished-business-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/unfinished-business-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished Business 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found this nice quote from Graham Chapman which I had written on my wall in London in the late 70\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>\u201cLife is like a yacht in the Caribbean\u2026.\u00a0 it\u2019s alright if you\u2019ve got one.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also I came across this piece of unused Python material, in my handwriting.\u00a0 It might have been written for one of the records.<\/p>\n<p>MAN<\/p>\n<p>Just where <i>do<\/i> ideas come from?<\/p>\n<p>Indeed where did I get the idea to ask you just where<i> do<\/i> ideas come from?<\/p>\n<p>What <i>is<\/i> an idea?<\/p>\n<p>Is it an idea to ask you \u201cwhat is an idea?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, if so, where did the idea to ask you <i>what is an idea, <\/i>come from?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we could have the idea to look up <i>idea<\/i> in the dictionary, but where did the idea to look up \u201cidea\u201d in the dictionary come from?<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention who had the idea to write a dictionary with the idea of defining the idea of ideas in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>And is it a good idea anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Do I have ideas?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Or do ideas have me?<\/p>\n<p>Do I think or do I merely <i>think<\/i> I think?<\/p>\n<p>Who am I?<\/p>\n<p>Am I the I who asks who the who is?<\/p>\n<p>Or am I really the who, the object that the subject \u201cI\u201d is asking about?<\/p>\n<p>Indeed in the question, \u201cwho am I?\u201d who the who is who?<\/p>\n<p>Am I a member of The Who?<\/p>\n<p>Which came first the egg or the mayonnaise?<\/p>\n<p>How many roads <i>must<\/i> a man walk down before he knows he\u2019s a man?<\/p>\n<p>Why <i>do<\/i> fools fall in love?<\/p>\n<p>What <i>does<\/i> become of the broken hearted?<\/p>\n<p>How deep <i>is<\/i> the ocean?<\/p>\n<p>Where <i>have<\/i> all the flowers gone?<\/p>\n<p>How much <i>is<\/i> that doggie in the window?<\/p>\n<p>Am I nuts?<\/p>\n<p>Should I be locked up?<\/p>\n<p>Would you like a nice\u00a0nut?<\/p>\n<p>Shall I show you my nuts?<\/p>\n<p>I should leave now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found this nice quote from Graham Chapman which I had written on my wall in London in the late 70\u2019s. \u201cLife is like a yacht in the Caribbean\u2026.\u00a0 it\u2019s alright if you\u2019ve got one.\u201d &nbsp; Also I came across this piece of unused Python material, in my handwriting.\u00a0 It might have been written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericidle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}