Holy cow. <\/p>\n
Usually when I get interested in a subject, I have a tendency to jump in the deep end of the pool, both feet first, without bothering to get nekkid. I’ve long been of the opinion that swimming in a subject and getting totally immersed was the best way to quickly get a set of bearings. Not that I would always take the right direction, naturally, but at least I had a few choices on the old compass.<\/p>\n
I have officially been bitten by the three shell game<\/em> bug.<\/p>\n I don’t know why. And I don’t know why now<\/em>. I just know I have and the itch is…significant.<\/p>\n As a result, I have been doing my best to swim in three-shelldom. So far, the easiest thing has been to eliminate one particular set of shells (and if you have to ask by whom, go straight to the blackboard and write one hundred times, “I shall not support flightless birds.”<\/em>)<\/p>\n Truth be told, Frank Garcia is ultimately responsible for causing this ruckus in a telephone conversation a long, long time ago. It was an off-handed remark he made having nothing to do with the reason I called him, but every time I saw or heard “three shell game” I heard Frank’s voice in my head.<\/p>\n So tonight\/this morning I’m thinking of Frank again. Ultimately, I think, I’ll be greatful for him planting the bug because it is obvious to me that proponents of the three shell game revere the con like nobody’s business. And I can easily see me numbered in with them.<\/p>\n So is this, the first blog post of the new year, a resolution to learn and perform the three shell game? No, I think that decision was made last night. But right now I’m tuckered out from searching. I do have a pretty good idea who I need to talk to, though. <\/p>\n Film at eleven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Holy cow. Usually when I get interested in a subject, I have a tendency to jump in the deep end of the pool, both feet first, without bothering to get nekkid. I’ve long been of the opinion that swimming in a subject and getting totally immersed was the best way to quickly get a set […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}