{"id":943,"date":"2016-02-08T10:36:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=943"},"modified":"2016-02-08T10:36:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T15:36:16","slug":"i-didnt-charge-for-my-opinion-about-them-and-they-didnt-charge-for-their-opinion-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2016\/02\/08\/i-didnt-charge-for-my-opinion-about-them-and-they-didnt-charge-for-their-opinion-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t charge for my opinion about them, and they didn\u2019t charge for their opinion about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-945\" style=\"width: 191px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-945\" src=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mark_Twain_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait_Feb_7_1871_cropped-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Twain\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mark_Twain_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait_Feb_7_1871_cropped-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Mark_Twain_Brady-Handy_photo_portrait_Feb_7_1871_cropped.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 85vw, 191px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Twain, detail of photo by Mathew Brady, February 7, 1871<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, I liked the king, and as king I respected him\u2014respected the office; at least respected it as much as I was capable of respecting any unearned supremacy; but as MEN I looked down upon him and his nobles\u2014privately. And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, they looked down upon me\u2014and were not particularly private about it, either.<strong> I didn\u2019t charge for my opinion about them, and they didn\u2019t charge for their opinion about me: the account was square, the books balanced, everybody was satisfied.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain\u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/etc.usf.edu\/lit2go\/174\/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court\/\">A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur\u2019s Court<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I liked the king, and as king I respected him\u2014respected the office; at least respected it as much as I was capable of respecting any unearned supremacy; but as MEN I looked down upon him and his nobles\u2014privately. And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2016\/02\/08\/i-didnt-charge-for-my-opinion-about-them-and-they-didnt-charge-for-their-opinion-about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I didn\u2019t charge for my opinion about them, and they didn\u2019t charge for their opinion about me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}