{"id":8470,"date":"2022-01-07T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:53:13","slug":"captain-obvious-small-bolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"833\" data-attachment-id=\"8471\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/caoptainobvious\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?fit=1978%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1978,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1641093749&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CaoptainObvious\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?fit=644%2C833&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious.jpg?resize=644%2C833&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?resize=644%2C833&amp;ssl=1 644w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?resize=1583%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1583w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?w=1978&amp;ssl=1 1978w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?w=1288&amp;ssl=1 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Figure 1. One-Off Non Series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/00\/\">#00<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Despite Fatigue, Captain Obvious Conjured a Small Bolt.&#8221; And just when we&#8217;d begun to worry that our hero was out of heroics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First illustration of 2022. Re-finding habits. Drawing takes a backseat for a month or more, sometimes. And sweet baby Jesus was December a steep climb of a month. Wonderful in many ways, but steep. &#8220;Captain Obvious throws a bolt&#8221; has become an idiomatic way of carrying on what Joe Meriweather at PU used to mean when he would say, as he often did, &#8220;uh-duhhhh.&#8221; Damn sure do miss Joe C.&#8217;s friendship, mentorship, encouragement, and reminders about when to get your elbows up (figuratively). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>First illustration of 2022. Re-finding habits. Drawing takes a backseat for a month or more, sometimes. And sweet baby Jesus was December a steep climb of a month. Wonderful in many ways, but steep. &#8220;Captain Obvious throws a bolt&#8221; has become an idiomatic way of carrying on what Joe Meriweather at PU used to mean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unspecified"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Captain Obvious, Small Bolt - Earth Wide Moth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt - Earth Wide Moth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u23f3 Approximate reading time:  &lt; 1 minFirst illustration of 2022. Re-finding habits. Drawing takes a backseat for a month or more, sometimes. And sweet baby Jesus was December a steep climb of a month. Wonderful in many ways, but steep. &#8220;Captain Obvious throws a bolt&#8221; has become an idiomatic way of carrying on what Joe Meriweather at PU used to mean...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Earth Wide Moth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-07T21:53:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-644x833.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Derek Mueller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Derek Mueller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Derek Mueller\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\"},\"headline\":\"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-07T21:53:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":114,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/CaoptainObvious-644x833.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Unspecified\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/\",\"name\":\"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt - Earth Wide Moth\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/CaoptainObvious-644x833.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-07T21:53:13+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?fit=1978%2C2560&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?fit=1978%2C2560&ssl=1\",\"width\":1978,\"height\":2560},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2022\\\/01\\\/07\\\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Earth Wide Moth\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\",\"name\":\"Derek Mueller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\",\"width\":1220,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Derek Mueller\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.derekmueller.net\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/derek.mueller\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/dereknmueller\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/dnmueller\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/dmueller\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt - Earth Wide Moth","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt - Earth Wide Moth","og_description":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time:  &lt; 1 minFirst illustration of 2022. Re-finding habits. Drawing takes a backseat for a month or more, sometimes. And sweet baby Jesus was December a steep climb of a month. Wonderful in many ways, but steep. &#8220;Captain Obvious throws a bolt&#8221; has become an idiomatic way of carrying on what Joe Meriweather at PU used to mean...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/","og_site_name":"Earth Wide Moth","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller","article_published_time":"2022-01-07T21:53:13+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-644x833.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Derek Mueller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Derek Mueller","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/"},"author":{"name":"Derek Mueller","@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b"},"headline":"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt","datePublished":"2022-01-07T21:53:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/"},"wordCount":114,"publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-644x833.jpg","articleSection":["Unspecified"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/","url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/","name":"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt - Earth Wide Moth","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-644x833.jpg","datePublished":"2022-01-07T21:53:13+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?fit=1978%2C2560&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CaoptainObvious-scaled.jpg?fit=1978%2C2560&ssl=1","width":1978,"height":2560},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/captain-obvious-small-bolt\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Captain Obvious, Small Bolt"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/","name":"Earth Wide Moth","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b","name":"Derek Mueller","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480","width":1220,"height":480,"caption":"Derek Mueller"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.derekmueller.net\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dereknmueller\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dnmueller"],"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/author\/dmueller\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7tdGk-2cC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7260,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/bolt-fix\/","url_meta":{"origin":8470,"position":0},"title":"Bolt Fix","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"June 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"While driving to the grocery store last evening, I heard a sudden, distinct drumming of one tire against asphalt--an instantly deflating sound-report of a crisis likely needing repair. I pulled over, walked a circle around the Element, checked the tires, found nothing, drove a bit farther, heard it again: a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Unspecified&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Unspecified","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/unspecified\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8772,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/16\/isegoria-and-parresia\/","url_meta":{"origin":8470,"position":1},"title":"Isegoria and Parr\u0113sia","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"June 16, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Democracy and the new nihilism do not go together. Democracy presupposes truthful speaking. In his last lecture, delivered shortly before his death, Michel Foucault, as if he had senses the coming crisis of truth in which we are losing the will to truth, addressed the 'courage of the truth' (parr\u0113sia).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academe&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academe","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/academe\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6127,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/12\/recognize-the-n\/","url_meta":{"origin":8470,"position":2},"title":"Recognize the Non-Obvious","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"July 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Passed an hour at the public library tonight after an ordered exodus for house-showing.\u00a0 There, I picked up Wired Magazine, flipped through a few pages and learned about this: NORA: Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness Software Among other things, NORA \"extends identity recognition with relationship awareness by detecting both obvious and non-obvious\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technologies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technologies","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/technologies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9235,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/both-are-main\/","url_meta":{"origin":8470,"position":3},"title":"Both Are Main","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"May 15, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash I finished reading Michiko Aoyama's What You Are Looking For Is In the Library (2020) a couple of weeks ago, just as we in SW Virginia were crossing over into regreening season. The book was a rewarding digression at the end of an otherwise\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ground Swell&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ground Swell","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/ground_swell\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/felixittermeier-unsplash-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6390,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/29\/visual-shock\/","url_meta":{"origin":8470,"position":4},"title":"Visual Shock","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"August 29, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Beginning with a brief entry from Nixlog, I clicked into a now month-old discussion of the visual shock resulting from the overwhelming complexity of some information graphics.\u00a0 From Beyond Bullets: Have you ever been so confused by the complexity of a map, chart or diagram, that you didn't know where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Distances&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Distances","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/distances\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/visshock.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6926,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/the-steep-appro\/","url_meta":{"origin":8470,"position":5},"title":"The Steep Approach","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"April 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I finished up Iain Banks' The Steep Approach to Garbadale a couple of days ago. Took me about a week, and it felt like a faster-than-usual read, though it's not like I spend all that much time reading fiction for the sport of it (at least not these days). Faster\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Reading Notes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Reading Notes","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/reading_notes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/img\/garbadale.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}