{"id":880,"date":"2006-05-09T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=880"},"modified":"2006-05-09T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T00:37:00","slug":"a-lost-classic-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"A lost classic revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbostudio.com\/redthread\/red_thread.html\">The Red Thread project<\/a> which <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/knitting\/7021958.html\">someone posted about<\/a> in <lj user=knitting> earlier seems like an innocuous art project, but it&#8217;s obviously blatant plagiarism!  Doesn&#8217;t anyone remember Dr. Seuss&#8217;s lost classic, &#8220;Obermeyer&#8217;s Grimulous Gromulous Smartsucker?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lbostudio.com\/images\/redthread\/red_thread_b.jpg\"><br \/>\n<!--more Sure they do!--><br \/>\nI quote:<\/p>\n<p><i>Then the horrible grimulous gromulous thing,<br \/>\nIt started to suck through its grabulous string!<\/p>\n<p>All the brains of the children were sucked from their noodles,<br \/>\nIt took out their knowledge, all kits and kaboodles!<\/p>\n<p>It sucked out the minuses!  Then all the pluses!<br \/>\nIt sucked out the numbers of all of their buses!<\/p>\n<p>It sucked out the names of their dogs and their cats!<br \/>\nIt sucked all their thinking from under their hats!<\/p>\n<p>The thinking was gone, their minds were all mush!<br \/>\nNothing inside but some baba ghanoush!<\/p>\n<p>Then the gribulous grabulous grobulous string,<br \/>\nIt started to do a most horrible thing&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nSadly, that&#8217;s all I can remember.  But really, it&#8217;s appalling to see it come to life.  I hope the children can save themselves, just as they did in the book.  Nobody wants to have their minds permanently smartsucked.<\/p>\n<p>What?  I do not have too much time on my hands.  Be quiet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, The Red Thread project which someone posted about in earlier seems like an innocuous art project, but it&#8217;s obviously blatant plagiarism! Doesn&#8217;t anyone remember Dr. Seuss&#8217;s lost classic, &#8220;Obermeyer&#8217;s Grimulous Gromulous Smartsucker?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}