{"id":2776,"date":"2011-07-28T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2014-01-19T23:37:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T22:37:47","slug":"you-are-old-mr-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2011\/07\/28\/you-are-old-mr-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"You are old, Mr Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Part of a poetry slam with <a href=\"http:\/\/coyot.es\">Chris Clarke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are old, Mr Clarke,\u201d the woman said, stunned,<br \/>\n\u201cAnd your music has gone out of style;<br \/>\nYet your circles are full and your comments +1\u2019d<br \/>\nHave you been on the net a long while?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my youth,\u201d Mr. Clarke replied to the lass,<br \/>\n\u201cOur flamewars used genuine fires.<br \/>\nI still carve my zeroes; my ones are hand-cast.<br \/>\nThey barely fit through the wires.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are old,\u201d said the girl, \u201cyou once used AOL<br \/>\nAs shorthand to mean \u2018you are clueless\u2019.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve no doubt at all you were once on the WELL \u2014<br \/>\nAre you awestruck by all the newness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my youth,\u201d said the blogger, pausing his post,<br \/>\n\u201cDiscussions on Usenet were clever.<br \/>\nAnd here we are still, and I don\u2019t mean to boast,<br \/>\nBut I\u2019m just as witty as ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are old, said the girl again, \u201cantedating<br \/>\nBoth Napster and Wikipedia.<br \/>\nAre you really a part of the world we\u2019re creating<br \/>\nWith sharing and social media?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my youth\u201d said the writer, \u201cwe shared without fail:<br \/>\nThe carbon would blacken our cc\u2019s.<br \/>\nWe guessed from their style which posters were male,<br \/>\nBut often we doubted their species.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are old,\u201d said the girl, \u201cI can scarcely believe<br \/>\nThe time you have been wasting in chatter.<br \/>\nWhat famines and poverties did you relieve<br \/>\nWhat injustices did you shatter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have answered three questions, and that is enough,\u201d<br \/>\nSaid Chris; \u201cTell me how if you\u2019re friendless<br \/>\nYou expect you can change all of that crucial stuff?<br \/>\nThe potential of wank is just\u00a0<em>endless<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100562415844382241634\/posts\/6khPiou6BXL\">Google+<\/a>, copied to <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/013146.html\">Making Light<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part of a poetry slam with Chris Clarke) \u201cYou are old, Mr Clarke,\u201d the woman said, stunned, \u201cAnd your music has gone out of style; Yet your circles are full and your comments +1\u2019d Have you been on the net a long while?\u201d \u201cIn my youth,\u201d Mr. Clarke replied to the lass, \u201cOur flamewars used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2011\/07\/28\/you-are-old-mr-clarke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You are old, Mr Clarke<\/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":[1775,1868,1866],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doggerel-pastiches","tag-alice-in-wonderland","tag-poetry-slam","tag-you-are-old-father-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","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=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}