{"id":1220,"date":"2012-03-23T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2012-03-23T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:46:16","slug":"steven-par-simon-parke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Steven&#8217; par Simon Parke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Voici quelques remarques peu flatteuses faites au sujet de\u00a0Steven par ses coll\u00e8gues de travail :<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Quotient intellectuel \u00e9gal \u00e0 la temp\u00e9rature de la pi\u00e8ce :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aussi lumineux que l&#8217;Alaska en d\u00e9cembre\u00a0\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Si les cerveaux \u00e9taient tax\u00e9s, il obtiendrait une remise :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0La banque g\u00e9n\u00e9tique \u00e9tait ferm\u00e9 quand sa m\u00e8re voulu faire un retrait :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Il poss\u00e8de la sagesse des jeunes et l&#8217;\u00e9nergie des vieux :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0L&#8217;\u00e9volution a s\u00fbrement construit une voie de contournement autour de sa maison :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Il a atteint le fond du baril il y a longtemps &#8211; et il continue de s&#8217;enfoncer :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 La barri\u00e8re est abaiss\u00e9e, les lumi\u00e8res clignotantes sont allum\u00e9es, mais le train n&#8217;arrive pas\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Il prive un village de son idiot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Tout \u00e7a est peut-\u00eatre vrai. Mais moi, j&#8217;aimais Steven. Il \u00e9tait le seul \u00e0 m&#8217;offrir du th\u00e9 quand je faisais une livraison \u00e0 son bureau.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tir\u00e9 de &#8216;M\u00e9ditation Minute&#8217; par Simon Parke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\">(www.simonparke.com<\/a>). Disponible d&#8217;amazon.co.uk (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\">www.amazon.co.uk<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8216;Steven&#8217; by Simon Parke:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">You know what they say about\u00a0Steven in the office and none of it is very polite:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Room-temperature IQ, that one!:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bright as Alaska in December:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If brains were taxed, he&#8217;d get a rebate:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He must have got into the gene pool while the life guard wasn&#8217;t watching:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Possesses the wisdom of youth and the energy of old age:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The evolutionary process clearly built a bypass round his house:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He reached rock-bottom long ago &#8211; and carried on digging:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but there&#8217;s no train coming:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s depriving some village of an idiot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Well, maybe. But I loved Steven. He was the only one who gave me tea when I made deliveries to his office&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taken from &#8216;One-Minute Mystic&#8217; by Simon Parke (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonparke.com\">www.simonparke.com<\/a>). Available on amazon.co.uk (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\">www.amazon.co.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voici quelques remarques peu flatteuses faites au sujet de\u00a0Steven par ses coll\u00e8gues de travail : Quotient intellectuel \u00e9gal \u00e0 la temp\u00e9rature de la pi\u00e8ce :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aussi lumineux que l&#8217;Alaska en d\u00e9cembre\u00a0\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Si les cerveaux \u00e9taient tax\u00e9s, il obtiendrait une remise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[4,26],"tags":[89,113,32],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-jG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}