{"id":175636,"date":"2021-01-04T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/04\/weirdest-thing-on-twitter-ever\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T01:57:00","slug":"weirdest-thing-on-twitter-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/04\/weirdest-thing-on-twitter-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Weirdest Thing on Twitter Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div   style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\" >\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">      Today I learnt that in 1995 Iggy Pop reviewed Edward Gibbon\u2019s The Decline       and Fall of the Roman Empire for peer-reviewed academic journal Classics       Ireland <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a6dTtlqRer\">pic.twitter.com\/a6dTtlqRer<\/a>    <\/p>\n<p>    \u2014 Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods)     <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hannahrosewoods\/status\/1345734747721506831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2021<\/a     >  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i     >Incongruous<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dL8LMrw.jpg\"       ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/dL8LMrw.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a     ><br \/>    This is Iggy Pop<\/i   ><\/div>\n<p>  Did you know that Iggy Pop was published in a peer reviewed journal?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>  He reviewed Edward Gibbon&#8217;s <i>The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>  I always knew that Pop was &#8220;eclectic&#8221;, but this is <b>WAY<\/b> more eclectic   that I could possibly imagined. <\/p>\n<p>  Equally surprising is that when I did a Google search for peer reviewed   articles published by Flaming Lips front-man Wayne Coyne, there is nothing. <\/p>\n<p>  In fact, I did a rather extensive series of searches, and could find no other   Rock and Roller with a peer reviewed article. <\/p>\n<p>  Go figure.   <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/xQLSCI3.jpg\"     ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/xQLSCI3.jpg\" width=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learnt that in 1995 Iggy Pop reviewed Edward Gibbon\u2019s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for peer-reviewed academic journal Classics Ireland pic.twitter.com\/a6dTtlqRer \u2014 Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods) January 3, 2021 Incongruous This is Iggy Pop Did you know that Iggy Pop was published in a peer reviewed journal?&nbsp; Not kidding. He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[544,389,385,478,421],"class_list":["post-175636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-academe","tag-history","tag-media","tag-music","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}