{"id":1446,"date":"2005-02-04T09:06:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T13:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:06:43","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T13:06:43","slug":"paradigmatically-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"paradigmatically rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some pseudoliterate has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,3604,1405547,00.html\">reminiscing<\/a> in the <em>Guardian<\/em> about the dotcom boom in Hoxton: <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;The satirical fanzine <em>Shoreditch Twat,<\/em> which I published, was born out of this confusion, seeking to make sense of the stampede of east London paradigms who talked much but seemed to achieve very little.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>Well I remember how we would scramble for shelter in the doorways of Old Street when a dustcloud rising above City Road gave early warning that a paradigm stampede was headed our way.<\/p>\n\n<p>At any rate this provides an opportunity to revive one of the greatest puns of the twentieth century, which arose from a vicious wartime academic squabble in the Dublin Institute of Celtic Studies, when two professors resigned when their favoured candidate for a job failed to get it. All together now, the song of Myles na gCopaleen:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>They sang in the choir<br \/>\nOf the Institute (Higher)<br \/>\nBinchy and Bergin and Best,<br \/>\nAnd when they saw fit<br \/>\nThe former two quit,<br \/>\nBinchy and Bergin and Best,<br \/>\nBut the third will remain<br \/>\nTo try to regain<br \/>\nAt whatever cost<br \/>\nOur paradigms lost,<br \/>\nBinchy and Bergin and Best.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some pseudoliterate has been reminiscing in the Guardian about the dotcom boom in Hoxton: &#8220;The satirical fanzine Shoreditch Twat, which I published, was born out of this confusion, seeking to make sense of the stampede of east London paradigms who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}