{"id":10907,"date":"2007-05-22T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T22:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/22\/potpourri-for-the-feast-of-st-bobo.html"},"modified":"2007-05-22T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T22:29:38","slug":"potpourri_for_the_feast_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/potpourri_for_the_feast_o.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for the Feast of St. Bobo"},"content":{"rendered":"

So maybe I will use the Feast Days to name these potpourri posts.  There are plenty, and to spare (twenty-one others I could have chosen for today alone).  Sure, they’re Catholic saints, but I tend to be Anglo-Catholic in my liturgical tastes, so I’m sure the Pope will forgive me.<\/p>\n

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  1. Who’s St Bobo<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  2. “The hoi-polloi are coming! The hoi-polloi are coming!<\/a>”  More on those nassssty bloggers and their pretentions at being credible critics.  “We have to find in the work of reviewers something more than idle opinion-mongering….They need to prove, not merely assert, their right to an opinion.”<\/em> <\/li>\n
  3. More horrifically realistic Simpsons <\/em>characters<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  4. Making a (mathematically) mean chocolate chip cookie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So maybe I will use the Feast Days to name these potpourri posts.  There are plenty, and to spare (twenty-one others I could have chosen for today alone).  Sure, they’re…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[45,3,38,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-blogging","category-food-drink","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135572,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/potpourri-500-alex.html","url_meta":{"origin":10907,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for $500, Alex!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Dec-17 6:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"[Originally posted last Friday.] 1. 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