{"id":469,"date":"2008-04-03T19:36:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2008-04-04T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T17:47:04","slug":"clever-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Clever people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gah!<\/p>\n<p>Love &#8217;em?<\/p>\n<p>Hate &#8217;em?<\/p>\n<p>Still got to admire &#8217;em, right?<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s a guy at work.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not particularly clever at work though.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey! I&#8217;ve got to say that! If I told the truth his head would get so huge he&#8217;d be unable to get out of the building.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Or in to it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Which would mean, thinking about it, that he wouldn&#8217;t be so clever at work because he couldn&#8217;t get in because of his oversized head.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hmmm&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this guy &#8211; I&#8217;ll call him Nick, but that&#8217;s his real name so I&#8217;ll come back and edit this later in an effort to hide his real identity as if he were a mild-mannered Clark Kent\/butch Superman kind of split personality guy.<\/p>\n<p>Where was I?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, Nick.<\/p>\n<p>He plays guitar &#8211; but it&#8217;s OK, it&#8217;s only bass guitar.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s cool for me to say that because I am, after all, one of the best rhythm guitarists in this whole house!<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s in a band too (as well as working with us genetically-engineered super-clevers), this Nick-not-his-real-name.<\/p>\n<p>So I said to him the other day &#8216;What did you do over the weekend Nick?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>And you know what he said?<\/p>\n<p>Do you?<\/p>\n<p>Well I&#8217;ll tell you.<\/p>\n<p>He told me that he &#8216;spent some of it in a recording studio&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>For a split second I assumed that he had a second job cleaning the glass between the studio and the engineer&#8217;s deck.<\/p>\n<p>I may have said something hyper-intelligent like &#8220;Wha&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Playing in the band&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>An animated conversation took place at this point followed, shortly afterwards, by the electronic transmission of a hyperlink to my inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed.<\/p>\n<p>So when you click on the MySpace link below do yourself a favour.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you&#8217;re comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you&#8217;re not going to be disturbed for a short while, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Make sure the player is serving up the track &#8216;Rico&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And here it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/singsinghotel\" title=\"Sing Sing Hotel\" target=\"_blank\">Nick-not-real-name-clever-guy-with-a-brain-the-size-of-a-small-planet and his weekend of work in a band named Sing Sing Hotel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>I listen to this stuff once a day.<\/p>\n<p>And I do.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>p.s. listen to the bass guitar. sickeningly good! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gah! Love &#8217;em? Hate &#8217;em? Still got to admire &#8217;em, right? So there&#8217;s a guy at work. He&#8217;s not particularly clever at work though. Hey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}