{"id":323,"date":"2011-09-08T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2011-09-08T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T19:14:33","slug":"the-crockensoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"The Crockensoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 14 (in 1951) Phil Harris sang a funny song on the radio titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9hPn3opPmls\">The &quot;Thing<\/a>,\u201d which triggered my imagination. I cartooned and made up a back story about the discovery of this \u201cThing,\u201d which was in fact a Fantasmous Crockensoon, <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/crockensoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"crockensoon\" border=\"0\" alt=\"crockensoon\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/crockensoon-thumb.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a> a being of extraordinary something-ness. Intrepid Explorer Professoroid <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hackthrpnorb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"hackthrpnorb\" border=\"0\" alt=\"hackthrpnorb\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/hackthrpnorb-thumb.jpg\" width=\"108\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> Norbert Q. Hackenthorpe (notice the third eye) of a nearby dimension set out on the quest to discover and domesticate, or at least tame, or at least befriend the Notorious Crockensoon, whose very breath was known to drive ordinary humanfolk to madness, or at least silliness. <\/p>\n<p>Using a variety of baits, none of which worked, Professoroid H finally devised a clever scheme: He called out into the multi-dimensional void: \u201cYoo hoo, Crockensoon, Here Boy, Come to A Meeeeeeting!\u201d Well, upon hearing such sincerity in P.H. (also known familiarly as Norbert ol pal by good friends such as the C.), poof! There he was! (Actually, it wasn\u2019t so much of a \u2018poof\u2019 as a sound of a bleb blebbing, but between dimensions.) <\/p>\n<p>Thereafter the two were inseparable, the C taking NQH on marvelous inter-dimensional trips to visit all manner of wondrous phenomena.&#160; (Peter Paul &amp; Mary later sang about Puff, the Magic Dragon, which is another legend like the inter-galactically famous&#160; Norbert &amp; the Crockensoon.)&#160; Chapter 2 to follow someday if you ask nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 14 (in 1951) Phil Harris sang a funny song on the radio titled \u201cThe &quot;Thing,\u201d which triggered my imagination. I cartooned and made up a back story about the discovery of this \u201cThing,\u201d which was in fact a Fantasmous Crockensoon, a being of extraordinary something-ness. Intrepid Explorer Professoroid Norbert Q. Hackenthorpe (notice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-foolin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}