{"id":11042,"date":"2010-12-20T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/professor-mondo\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T13:01:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:01:03","slug":"professor-mondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/professor-mondo\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Mondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Looking for some high-quality conservative culture critique anent the antics of the late Captain Beefheart who died last week, I typed &#39;New Criterion Captain Beefheart&#39; into the Google engine.&#0160;I was forthwith conducted to the stoa of <a href=\"http:\/\/profmondo.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Professor Mondo<\/a>, presumably because he links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/\" target=\"_self\">New Criterion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/profmondo.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/17\/captain-beefheart-r-i-p\/\" target=\"_self\">recently posted about Beefheart<\/a>.&#0160; Noting that he also links to me, I thought&#0160;it would be nice to direct some traffic his way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Mondo&#39;s self-description: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I\u2019m a medievalist at a small college in a small college town. I like reading, writing, music, and thinking \u2014 practicing any of these individually or in combination. Turnoffs include Brussels sprouts, bad music, and creeping totalitarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">As for the Brussels sprouts, <em>de gustibus non est disputandum<\/em>; but steaming &#0160;the hell out of them and drenching them in a good Hollandaise sauce laced with Tabasco works wonders for me.&#0160; Ditto for broccoli and other stinkweeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">UPDATE 12\/21:&#0160; Apparently my linkage caused a<a href=\"http:\/\/profmondo.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/20\/mav-alanche\/\" target=\"_self\"> &#39;Mav-alanche&#39; <\/a>at Mondo&#39;s site.&#0160; My pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for some high-quality conservative culture critique anent the antics of the late Captain Beefheart who died last week, I typed &#39;New Criterion Captain Beefheart&#39; into the Google engine.&#0160;I was forthwith conducted to the stoa of Professor Mondo, presumably because he links to New Criterion and recently posted about Beefheart.&#0160; Noting that he also links &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/20\/professor-mondo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professor Mondo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}