{"id":19,"date":"2013-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/?p=19"},"modified":"2013-03-19T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T07:10:01","slug":"and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/2013\/03\/17\/and-so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><big style=\"color: #8b5622;\"><em><strong>Diamantine Clarity<\/strong><\/em><\/big> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/bijou\" target=\"_blank\">b&#8217;jou<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/strong><\/span> of <strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Popeye Theophilus Barrnumb, <em>Esq.<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 You may call me Popeye.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sub-title, <span style=\"color: #8b5622;\"><em>A Lucid Dream b&#8217;jou for The Unwashed Masses<\/em><\/span>, is quite apropos. <small>(this may transmogrify over time)<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Within these hallowed halls and fortified walls of wisdom and pristine clarity you shall find verbiage unlike any found elsewhere on the Internets <em>[sic]<\/em>, the so-called World Wide Web, throughout CyberSpace, or in other mass-media and tomes of higher learning and baser self-indulgence. Among these pearlesque meanderings shall be found mountains of Truth, boulders of Justice, flavorings of The American Way, and a soup\u00e7on of humoristic wit. Count on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now . . . . Let the fun begin!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffcc;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2020<\/span><\/strong> <small>(pronounced <em>bee-zhoo<\/em> <small>(like Bijou, as in theater or cinema, or <a title=\"bijou word definition\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/bijou\" target=\"_blank\">bijou<\/a>)<\/small> = <em>we<\/em><strong>b jou<\/strong><em>rnal<\/em> :: a linguistic picture in motion worth well-more than 1,000 words)<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><small>[ di\u2022a\u2022man\u2022tine \u2014 diamond-like; diamantine clarity \u2014 purest, sharpest, pristine clarity ]<\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><small>Nota Bene: <strong><em>This<\/em><\/strong> is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> a &#8216;blog&#8217;. If you refer to it as a <em>blog<\/em>, you will be keel hauled, drawn and quartered, spat upon, and fed to the crows. Then we will have a discussion about your mother. And then and only then and thereafter will you begin to feel real pain, whereupon your agony-laced begging shall begin in earnest.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamantine Clarity is the b&#8217;jou\u2020 of Popeye Theophilus Barrnumb, Esq. \u2014 You may call me Popeye. The sub-title, A Lucid Dream b&#8217;jou for The Unwashed Masses, is quite apropos. (this may transmogrify over time) Within these hallowed halls and fortified walls of wisdom and pristine clarity you shall find verbiage unlike any found elsewhere on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,5,6],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","tag-intro","tag-popeye","tag-ptb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26eUn-j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamantineclarity.com\/bjou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}