{"id":2664,"date":"2008-04-07T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2014-01-19T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T22:05:12","slug":"the-argument-less-fraught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2008\/04\/07\/the-argument-less-fraught\/","title":{"rendered":"The argument less fraught"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/386\/\">one of the greatest xkcd cartoons of all<\/a>, as given life by Patrick Nielsen Hayden:<\/p>\n<p>Two threads diverged in a blog comment,<br \/> And sorry I could not argue both<br \/> And be one advocate, on I went<br \/> Researching one, and all that it meant<br \/> Unto the limits of its growth;<\/p>\n<p> Then fought the other, just as keen<br \/> And having perhaps the better claim<br \/> Because it had less buzzword-sheen;<br \/> Though as for that, &#8217;twas just as mean,<br \/> With obfuscation much the same.<\/p>\n<p> And both held promise of delight<br \/> With comments not yet answered back.<br \/> Oh, I marked the first for another night!<br \/> Yet knowing how fight leads on to fight<br \/> I doubted if I should ever come back.<\/p>\n<p> I shall be blogging this with a sigh<br \/> Someday ages and ages hence:<br \/> Two threads diverged in a blog, and I,<br \/> I took the one less comment-shy<br \/> And that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of one of the greatest xkcd cartoons of all, as given life by Patrick Nielsen Hayden: Two threads diverged in a blog comment, And sorry I could not argue both And be one advocate, on I went Researching one, and all that it meant Unto the limits of its growth; Then fought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2008\/04\/07\/the-argument-less-fraught\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The argument less fraught<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1589],"tags":[1731,1658,1821],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doggerel-pastiches","tag-community","tag-frost","tag-the-road-not-taken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}