{"id":19918,"date":"2023-07-05T15:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T22:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?page_id=19918"},"modified":"2024-09-21T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:29:40","slug":"laws-and-sayings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/nonfiction\/laws-and-sayings\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws and sayings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"pub-history-dates\">(Last change: 12 January 2024.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>I\u2019ve always enjoyed \u201claws\u201d and axioms along the lines of Murphy\u2019s Law (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west.net\/~ashleigh\/\">Ashleigh Brilliant<\/a>\u2019s \u201cPot-Shots\u201d postcards). Here are a couple of my own devising.<p>\r\n<p>This page used to also include several quotes from my sardonic pal Jack Mantis, but I\u2019ve now moved those to a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/mantis-speaks\/\">Mantis Speaks<\/a> page on the Words & Stuff site.<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/04\/11\/hhhyphen-comments\/\">Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation<\/a>: Any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Hartman\u2019s Rule About Rules: Every rule, including this one, has at least one exception.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Hartman\u2019s Law of Mail Urgency: If you wait long enough to go through your mail, none of it is urgent.\r\n    <ul>\r\n      <li>Corollary: If any of your mail turns out to be urgent, then you haven't waited long enough.<\/li>\r\n    <\/ul>\r\n  <\/li>\r\n  <li>Once something exists in electronic form, it\u2019s only a matter of time before it appears on the web.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Through the miracle of parallel evolution, other people may have come up with the above items as well, but to the best of my knowledge they were original when I thought of them.<\/p>\r\n<p>Or, as archy the cockroach once wrote:<p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<pre>\r\narchy is it original\r\nit was once i answered truthfully\r\nand may be again\r\n                            archy\r\n<\/pre>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5482,"menu_order":420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19918"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20988,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19918\/revisions\/20988"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}