{"id":1080,"date":"2008-07-17T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2008-07-17T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:55:47","slug":"there-is-no-them-patton-oswalt-drops-the-science-in-his-old-stomping-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There Is No Them&#8221;: Patton Oswalt Totally Drops Science at His Old Stomping Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/patton_oswalt.jpg\"  title=\"Ya lousy bum\u2026.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/patton_oswalt.jpg\" alt=\"Ya lousy bum\u2026.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patton Oswalt is an actor \/ writer \/ voiceover artist \/ comedian perhaps best known, at least to me, for playing &#8220;Spence Olchin&#8221; on <em>The King of Queens<\/em>, and the lead rat, &#8220;Remy,&#8221; below, on Pixar&#8217;s animated 2007 hit, <em>Ratatouille<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/6.jpg\" title=\"Hi, Remy!\" alt=\"Hi, Remy!\" align=\"right\" width=\"100\" \/>In short, he&#8217;s a funny guy that I notice from time to time, probably once every three months. That&#8217;s pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that <em>was<\/em> it. I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattonoswalt.com\/index.cfm?page=spew&amp;id=83\"  target=\"_blank\">Oswalt&#8217;s commencement address to the 2008 graduating class of Broad Run High School<\/a> in Ashburn, VA, his alma mater, and&#8230;<em>whoa<\/em>&#8230;it&#8217;s one of the most profound graduation speeches I&#8217;ve ever come across.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I hope someone puts a video up on YouTube. I mean&#8230;<em>wow<\/em>. I know there&#8217;s no accounting for taste with these end-of-school harangues, but he was actually profound. It was so good, I&#8217;m not even going to excerpt it. I&#8217;m just going to thank the stupendous <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/links\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Waxy.org<\/a> for the link, highly recommend you go through it in one sitting, but strongly suggest that you digest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattonoswalt.com\/index.cfm?page=spew&amp;id=82\"  target=\"_blank\">his brief, early draft<\/a>, first. That&#8217;s your assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patton Oswalt is an actor \/ writer \/ voiceover artist \/ comedian perhaps best known, at least to me, for playing &#8220;Spence Olchin&#8221; on The King of Queens, and the lead rat, &#8220;Remy,&#8221; below, on Pixar&#8217;s animated 2007 hit, Ratatouille. In short, he&#8217;s a funny guy that I notice from time to time, probably once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}