{"id":363,"date":"2011-09-15T19:44:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=363"},"modified":"2011-09-15T19:44:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:44:33","slug":"things-found-in-drawers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/things-found-in-drawers\/","title":{"rendered":"everything I love gets lost in drawers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a tiny bit of cleaning at th&#8217;office, I come across small sticky piles of old post-it notes with, for the most part, cryptic messages or references scribbled on them. But there is also the occasional gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am a philologist and all my work is philological. I avoid hobbies because I am a very serious person and cannot distinguish between private amusement and duty. I am affable, but unsociable. I only work for private amusement, since I find my duties privately amusing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; JRRT 1955, letter to Harvey Breit*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>* Well, since I am nothing if not a geek, and have now made this blog a target of googling Tolkien-fans, I should note for the record that yes, I am aware that this is actually not what Tolkien wrote in his letter, but what Breit quoted Tolkien to have written, to which JRRT later took objection. (See for instance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sf-fandom.com\/vbulletin\/archive\/index.php\/t-16958.html\">here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scritube.com\/limba\/engleza\/books\/THE-LETTERS-OF-J-R-R-TOLKIEN-P184214315.php\">here<\/a>. Or google for more.) But I still like the quote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a tiny bit of cleaning at th&#8217;office, I come across small sticky piles of old post-it notes with, for the most part, cryptic messages or references scribbled on them. But there is also the occasional gem: &#8220;I am a philologist and all my work is philological. I avoid hobbies because I am a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","tag-cool-stuff","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}