{"id":170,"date":"2008-10-25T11:28:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-10-25T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T10:28:07","slug":"philosophy-takes-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2008\/philosophy-takes-flight","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy takes flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies, and through the ages<br \/>\nWise men wondered where it went.<br \/>\nThough wise, these many sages<br \/>\nFound not where &#8211; nor what it meant.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They would, if they had flown<br \/>\nIn unison have shown<\/p>\n<p>Time flies into all those Pratt &#038; Whitneys<br \/>\nWhile you try to find a way to sit, knees<br \/>\nJammed into a seat<br \/>\nOh, let me repeat<\/p>\n<p>Time gets burned up in those Pratt &#038; Whitneys<br \/>\nWhile they serve you something fat with chick peas,<br \/>\nMake you watch that silly film with Britney&#8217;s<br \/>\nRoad trip &#8216;cross the states &#8211;<br \/>\nMy, how that creates<\/p>\n<p>A roar in my ear and a buzz in my brain &#8211;<br \/>\nAttempts to find sleep are now fully in vain.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nIn stupor I languish, to torpor succumb &#8211;<br \/>\nI know it, too, will pass&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So why did philosophers not figure out<br \/>\nWhat I have discovered without any doubt:<br \/>\nThat time flies to end up quite undignified,<br \/>\nSucked up by a jet to be Pratt-Whitney-fried.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got an idea that isn&#8217;t too dumb:<br \/>\nWise men fly business class.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time flies, and through the ages Wise men wondered where it went. Though wise, these many sages Found not where &#8211; nor what it meant.\u00c2\u00a0 They would, if they had flown In unison have shown Time flies into all those Pratt &#038; Whitneys While you try to find a way to sit, knees Jammed into a seat Oh, let me repeat Time gets burned up in those Pratt &#038; Whitneys While they serve you something fat with chick peas, Make you watch that silly film with Britney&#8217;s Road trip &#8216;cross the states &#8211; My, how that creates A roar in my ear and a buzz in my brain &#8211; Attempts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}