{"id":1702,"date":"2014-03-06T22:08:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T20:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2014-03-06T22:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T20:08:59","slug":"intelligence-lacks-no-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence lacks no humor."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I<\/strong> like to think of myself as an intelligent man at times, yet the Good Lord will always gently, sometimes humorously bring me down a step or two when I do. To give you a case of point, I enjoy reading quotes from others.\u00a0 I used to save them, but they have become so numerous, that I quit that.<\/p>\n<p>I am sitting in a quiet bar at the Hilton in Adana, Turkey, with my little computer enjoying some quotes from Albert Einstein, when I came across a letter he wrote to a close friend of his in 1905, Conrad Habicht.\u00a0 His salutation was thus:<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Habicht, \/Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble&#8230; \/ What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul&#8230;?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, how can I compete with that?\u00a0 If I was going to write a letter to my good friend Grant, I would have simply wrote: <em>Hey Griz-butt, how are you doing, you old fart?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See? No comparison.\u00a0 I have realized that intelligence lacks no humor.<\/p>\n<p>Keep kicking butt.\u00a0 D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to think of myself as an intelligent man at times, yet the Good Lord will always gently, sometimes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=1702\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tztR-rs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}