{"id":2643,"date":"2014-01-18T20:47:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T03:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanlowell.org\/tommw\/?page_id=2643"},"modified":"2014-01-18T20:47:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T03:47:44","slug":"monk-pole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/monk-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who&#8217;ve not heard the explanation &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Every day, about half way through the second mile (so midway-ish) in my talking, I walk past this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nlowell\/8589686974\/player\/170e19ca4e\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I slap the reflector on the middle post and say &#8220;Monk pole.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The reference is to the TV show &#8220;Monk.&#8221; The main character is OCD and can&#8217;t walk past anything sticking up without touching it. Parking meters, phone poles, fences, you name it. It&#8217;s one of the running gags in the show. <\/p>\n<p>Once when at a conference with a colleague whom I knew also liked the show, I started touching uprights as we walked past them. It took several minutes before the joke blossomed into laughter. <\/p>\n<p>So, now, I only touch that one &#8230; my Monk pole. It&#8217;s nothing more than a running gag. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who&#8217;ve not heard the explanation &#8230; Every day, about half way through the second mile (so midway-ish) in my talking, I walk past this: I slap the reflector on the middle post and say &#8220;Monk pole.&#8221; The reference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/monk-pole\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nathanlowell.com\/tommw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}