{"id":723,"date":"2011-04-21T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=723"},"modified":"2011-04-21T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:42:19","slug":"npm-21-two-empty-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2011\/04\/21\/npm-21-two-empty-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"NPM 21: Two Empty Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"a melancholy shuffle of weariness by paula r\u00fapolo, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adpt27\/1784690517\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2118\/1784690517_ad05b7746d.jpg\" alt=\"a melancholy shuffle of weariness\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">a melancholy shuffle of weariness by paula r\u00fapolo, on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two Empty Chairs<br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br \/>\nLaurel and Hardy,<br \/>\nAbbott and Costello,<br \/>\nBurns and Allen,<br \/>\nMa and Pa Kettle,<br \/>\nMartin and Lewis,<br \/>\nRowan and Martin,<br \/>\nBob and Doug,<br \/>\nDumber and Dumber,<br \/>\nHarold and Kumar,<\/p>\n<p>Tom and Jerry,<br \/>\nRen and Stimpy.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the tragedy of the third comedian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nby aforgrave. April 21st, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>National Poetry Month, Day 21<\/strong><br \/>\nFind\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/budtheteacher\/\">@budtheteacher<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/budtheteacher.com\/blog\/\">daily NPM prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Empty Chairs \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Ma and Pa Kettle, Martin and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-koans-of-poems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UvWF-bF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}