{"id":10654,"date":"2007-10-19T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/10\/19\/10654.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:57:00","slug":"no-more-golfing-no-more-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/10\/19\/no-more-golfing-no-more-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"No more golfing, no more cats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger is saddened by the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,2195116,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\">Alan Coren has died<\/a>. I have a fondness for Alan Coren, mostly born of a handful of hilarious essays in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/675084\">Golfing for Cats<\/a>. The interview with a bitter, alcoholic middle-aged Pooh Bear was stunning. There was a marvelous bit about disguising airports against terrorists that was probably funnier back then. There was a very nasty and hilarious 1984 joke. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/obituaries\/article2696826.ece?print=yes&amp;randnum=1192825698396\">Times obituary<\/a>, as one would expect, is both perfect and bizarre. &#8220;He was the most reliable of contributors. He always filed early and wrote to the length required.&#8221; Wouldn&#8217;t you like to have that in your obituary?<br \/>\n<p>Sadly, Mr. Coren also delighted in the use of comic dialect, and not always successfully. In fact, often painfully. Comic dialect is a touchy thing to begin with (nohmeen? nohm&#8217;sayn?) and always runs the risk of losing the reader entirely. I never made it more than a page or two into the Idi Amin book or the Miss Lillian Carter book. Still, I don&#8217;t demand that everything a writer puts out is wonderful. A decent percentage. And if you write as much as Mr. Coren did, a decent percentage of wonderful might well mean a lot of crap. Sadly, Mr. Coren not writing any more crap means no more good stuff, as well.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger mourns the passing of a funny man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,202,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglophilia","category-news-item","category-puff-piece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18134,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}