{"id":1515,"date":"2011-09-05T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2011-09-05T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:03:45","slug":"an-itch-scratched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"An itch scratched&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennyson said:<a href=\"http:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/2011\/09\/05\/an-itch-scratched\/alfred-lord-tennyson\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1516\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1516 alignright\" title=\"Alfred-Lord-Tennyson\" src=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/alfred-lord-tennyson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address>&#8216;Tis better to have loved and lost<\/address>\n<address>Than never to have loved at all.<\/address>\n<p>I propose a more general theorem, to which I\u00a0believe\u00a0the above a corollary:<\/p>\n<address>&#8216;Tis better to have itched and scratched<\/address>\n<address>Than never to have itched at all.<\/address>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Consider:<\/p>\n<p>A weekend spent fixing something broken is more satisfying than a weekend spend idle &#8211; with nothing broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennyson said: &#8216;Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. I propose a more general theorem, to which I\u00a0believe\u00a0the above a corollary: &#8216;Tis better to have itched and scratched Than never to have itched at all. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; Consider: A weekend spent fixing something broken is more satisfying than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,18],"tags":[256,126,134,152,263,189,265,210,224,226,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}