{"id":931,"date":"2010-01-20T19:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/2010\/01\/20\/on-being-boring\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T19:20:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T13:50:30","slug":"on-being-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/20\/on-being-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Boring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nilu claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/themaanga.com\/2010\/01\/11\/regression-toward-the-mean\/\">being boring is a virtue<\/a>. And then goes on to write some other nonsense which is completely unrelated.<sup>1<\/sup> But that is irrelevant \u2013 the larger point is that it took Nilu two years to come up with a justification for being boring.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/themadmomma.wordpress.com\">The Mad Momma<\/a> has pretty much cornered the market on passing off one\u2019s lack of talent or accomplishment as a virtue. And perhaps that only works if your audience is other mommybloggers. And when the puker adopts the method of the pukee, there\u2019s no hope.<\/p>\n<p>In other words \u2013 come back theothernilu. All is forgiven.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>: See, I can be condescending without using Latin words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nilu claims that being boring is a virtue. And then goes on to write some other nonsense which is completely unrelated.1 But that is irrelevant \u2013 the larger point is that it took Nilu two years to come up with a justification for being boring. Unfortunately, The Mad Momma has pretty much cornered the market [&hellip;]<\/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_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":[6,32],"tags":[331,1546,2057,2230,2244,2368,2384],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-puke","tag-boredom","tag-nilu","tag-smugness","tag-the-mad-momma","tag-theothernilu","tag-vice","tag-virtue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-f1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}