{"id":112266,"date":"2019-06-22T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T07:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=112266"},"modified":"2019-06-22T07:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:20:21","slug":"being-as-how-its-around-graduation-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2019\/06\/being-as-how-its-around-graduation-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Being as How It&#8217;s Around Graduation Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026being as how I enjoyed Neil Gaiman\u2019s <em>Good Omens<\/em> and really enjoyed his response to some white supremacist snowflake who could not cope with a depiction of Adam and Eve being black\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You know, it\u2019s when people who proclaim themselves as \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d turn off Good Omens after the first few minutes, and then come on Twitter to tell me off, that I think sometimes a negative review is a marvelous and heartwarming thing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AwX3oclXaZ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/AwX3oclXaZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neilhimself\/status\/1135012833035468801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be fun to hear his delightful address to the graduating class of 2012:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/plWexCID-kA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hit and miss on his fiction. But I cannot help but like him. There\u2019s a humility and a goodness there. And he\u2019s very funny. He remarked once that he was invited to some soiree of Big Brains and he felt completely out of place. He wound up in the back of the room chatting with an elderly gentleman about the fact that they both had the same first name and they both felt out of place and outclassed by all the other guests. The old man said, \u201cLook at all these amazing people! All I ever did was go where they sent me. I don\u2019t belong here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaiman replied something along the lines of, \u201cWell, Mr. Armstrong, I think being the first man to walk on the moon counts as a real achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, do listen to the address: A lovely thing to get the blood moving on a Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026being as how I enjoyed Neil Gaiman\u2019s Good Omens and really enjoyed his response to some white supremacist snowflake who could not cope with a depiction of Adam and Eve being black\u2026 You know, it\u2019s when people who proclaim themselves as \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d turn off Good Omens after the first few minutes, and then come 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