{"id":5391,"date":"2011-01-10T07:15:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2011-01-07T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:20:37","slug":"klingon-huck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5391","title":{"rendered":"Klingon Huck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently on Twitter, Neil Gaiman commented on the “sanitized Huck Finn” flap by saying:<\/p>\n

People asking about http:\/\/wapo.st\/eRHo6W<\/a>. It’s public domain, so you can make Huck a Klingon if you want, but it’s not Mark Twain’s book.
\n@neilhimself<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which he then decided to illustrate by saying:<\/p>\n

What’s the use you learnin’ to do right, when it’s troublesome to do right & ain’t no trouble to do wrong, & tomorrow we die! #KlingonHuck
\n@neilhimself<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which led to all of this:<\/p>\n

@neilhimself Revenge is a dish best served with a big ol’ piece of Aunt Polly’s blueberry pie. #KlingonHuck
\n@salamanderjbu<\/p>\n

@neilhimself Aunt Sally says she’s gonna adopt and sivilize me so I reckon I’ll light out to the Neutral Zone. #KlingonHuck
\n@MichaelClear<\/p>\n

@neilhimself Painting this fence is…illogical. #VulcanTom
\n@muskrat_john<\/p>\n

@neilhimself They would rather be outlaws a year in The Neutral Zone than President of the Federation forever. #KlingonHuck #VulcanTom
\n@JoeyBags1138<\/p>\n

@neilhimself Wouldn’t it be dishonorable to attend your own funeral? #KlingonHuck
\n@JohnMCoons<\/p>\n

@neilhimself Next day he was drunk on prune juice (a warrior’s drink), and he went to Judge Thatcher’s and bullyragged him #KlingonHuck
\n@dansimmo1<\/p>\n

@neilhimself These liars warn’t no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and Ferengis. #KlingonHuck
\n@jeepgirl77<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And wound up with this:<\/p>\n

@realjohngreen Inspired by @neilhimself, I turned a paragraph of Huckleberry Finn into a tale of Klingon oppression: http:\/\/bit.ly\/gAeCsa<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gawd, I love the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently on Twitter, Neil Gaiman commented on the “sanitized Huck Finn” flap by saying: People asking about http:\/\/wapo.st\/eRHo6W. It’s public domain, so you can make Huck a Klingon if you want, but it’s not Mark Twain’s book. @neilhimself Which he then decided to illustrate by saying: What’s the use you learnin’ to do right, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5394,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}