{"id":824,"date":"2007-12-01T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T14:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2007-12-01T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T14:15:23","slug":"anecdotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Anecdotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File this under web discovery.<\/p>\n<p>I may be one of the few I know who love hearing and reading anecdotes.  Whenever I say the word, people always seem to respond with a puzzled look.  <i>A whatta?<\/i>  It may just be that I&#8217;m not around the right people.  Whatever the case maybe, I have found kindred spirits online.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anecdotage.com\"  target=\"out\">Anecdotage.com<\/a> is a web site devoted to preserving and sharing anecdotes.  Their mission is to be the world&#8217;s widest collection of celebrity anecdotes.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered the web site while researching information on French cultural anthropologist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&#038;keywords=Clotaire%20Rapaille&#038;tag=lifeafter-20&#038;index=na-books-us&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\" >Clotaire Rapaille<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifeafter-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.  I am currently reviewing his book, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCulture-Code-Ingenious-Understand-People%2Fdp%2F0767920570%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dgeneric%26qid%3D1196517841%26sr%3D1-1&#038;tag=lifeafter-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\" >The Culture Code<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lifeafter-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and thus, needed to do some background reasearch on the author.  Discovery of the web site told me that there are other people out there who enjoy anecdotes.  I am not alone in this world.  LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, the web site could just be an extension of the public&#8217;s fascination with celebrities.  This could simply be another way to obsess with celebrities.  However, I choose to think that my initial assessment is true.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hugh Massingberd, a former editor of the obituaries page of the Daily Telegraph, recalled the unwieldy challenges posed by a refusal to capitulate to the seductions of the posthumous parallax [a bending of life histories toward all that is light and wholesome, away from anything that might reflect unfavorably on the dead].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;One day, an injunction arrived from on high that we were to make a point of including the cause of death,&#8217; he reminisced in The Spectator [in 2001]. &#8216;As it happened, a candidate for the morgue of the morrow, a priapic jazzer, had handed in his dinner pail after a penile implant had unfortunately exploded. We duly complied with the editorial diktat.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has been reprinted here without permission <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anecdotage.com\"  target=\"out\">but I am linking back to their web site (Anecdotage.com)<\/a> so hopefully they won&#8217;t mind it.  It is free word-of-mouth, buzz advertising after all. I hope you enjoy their web site as much as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under web discovery. I may be one of the few I know who love hearing and reading anecdotes. Whenever I say the word, people always seem to respond with a puzzled look. A whatta? It may just be that I&#8217;m not around the right people. Whatever the case maybe, I have found kindred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}