{"id":6153,"date":"2010-10-22T02:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T10:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2010-10-22T02:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T10:07:59","slug":"literary-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/literary-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tattoo-james-joyce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6152\" title=\"tattoo james joyce\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tattoo-james-joyce.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tattooed image is becoming passe as more and more people choose words to express themselves. Not just mottoes like &#8220;Death Before Dishonor,&#8221; but whole passages from novels or favorite poems.<\/p>\n<p>The James Joyce one above is kind of pretentious for my taste but it&#8217;s better than all the poor unfortunate people who&#8217;ve chosen stuff from Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and poems by Sylvia Plath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tattooed-lyrics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6154\" title=\"tattooed lyrics\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tattooed-lyrics.jpg?resize=300%2C232\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The girl above chose song lyrics, from &#8220;New Found Glory&#8221; on one leg and &#8220;Cartel&#8221; on the other. I don&#8217;t know. Couldn&#8217;t she settle for lyric sheets?<\/p>\n<p>The human doodle-pad look is kind of questionable to me, but in fact I have thought about a song lyric or two in memory of my son. After looking at the archives at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrariwise.org\" target=\"_blank\">contrariwise.org<\/a>, a blog dedicated to literary tattoos, I&#8217;m more tempted to go for something really fun. How about this lyric from &#8220;Santeria&#8221; by Sublime:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell Sanchito that if he knows<br \/>\nWhat is good for him<br \/>\nHe best go run an&#8217; hide<br \/>\nDaddy&#8217;s got a new forty-five<\/p>\n<p>And I<\/strong><strong> won&#8217;t think twice to stick that barrel<br \/>\nStraight down Sancho&#8217;s throat<br \/>\nBelieve me when I say that<br \/>\nI got something for his punk ass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That, I could live with.&nbsp;\u00a0 What do you think about literary tattoos? Cool, stupid, or you already have several?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tattooed image is becoming passe as more and more people choose words to express themselves. Not just mottoes like &#8220;Death Before Dishonor,&#8221; but whole passages from novels or favorite poems. The James Joyce one above is kind of pretentious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/literary-tattoos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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}}},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[904,357],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1Bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}