{"id":4121,"date":"2007-11-13T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/13\/as-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:01:15","slug":"as-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/13\/as-brevity-is-the-soul-of-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"As brevity is the soul of wit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5766,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com\\\/International\\\/wireStory?id=3136807&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/abcnews.go.com\\\/International\\\/wireStory?id=3136807&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5767,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.smh.com.au\\\/articles\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/09\\\/1194329425200.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170222064911\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.smh.com.au\\\/articles\\\/2007\\\/11\\\/09\\\/1194329425200.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 14:15:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 14:15:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5768,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/remainder\\\/07\\\/05\\\/13390.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/07\\\/05\\\/i-know-its-only-2007-but-this-is&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5769,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/remainder\\\/07\\\/11\\\/14447.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080904224000\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.kottke.org\\\/remainder\\\/07\\\/11\\\/14447.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/kottke.org\\\/07\\\/11\\\/a-definite-contender-for-the-headline-of&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Competing with last May&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=3136807\" title=\"ABC News: Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo\">Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo<\/a>&#8221; for best headline of 2007: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2007\/11\/09\/1194329425200.html\" title=\"Sydney Morning Herald: Hamlet Shaken by Murder Then Suicide\">Hamlet Shaken by Murder Then Suicide<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>(both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/05\/13390.html\" title=\"kottke.org: I know it's only 2007, but this is the headline of the decade.\">via<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/07\/11\/14447.html\" title=\"kottke.org: A definite contender for the headline of the year\">Kottke<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competing with last May&#8217;s &#8216;Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo&#8217; for best headline of 2007: &#8216;Hamlet Shaken by Murder Then Suicide&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}