{"id":7,"date":"2007-01-30T17:53:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T00:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/01\/30\/if-i-was-technologically-advanced-enough-to-make-a-venn-diagram-i-would\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T17:53:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T00:53:48","slug":"if-i-was-technologically-advanced-enough-to-make-a-venn-diagram-i-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/01\/30\/if-i-was-technologically-advanced-enough-to-make-a-venn-diagram-i-would\/","title":{"rendered":"If I was technologically advanced enough to make a Venn diagram, I would."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span>Just imagine two circles, the circles of a Venn diagram.\u00c2\u00a0 The Samurai from Yojimbo would be one circle, and Ned Beaumont would be the other circle.\u00c2\u00a0 The overlapping circle, naturally, would be their similarities.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Samurai&#8217;s circle, it would say &#8220;Japanese.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 In Ned&#8217;s circle, it would say &#8220;American.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 And that would be the only things written there, because besides the fact that Ned is American and the Samurai is Japanese&#8211;they are the same person.\u00c2\u00a0 The overlapping part of the Venn diagram would be completely filled; with the following points:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span>\u00c2\u00a0both gamblers<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>both inherently alone in the world<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>caught between two opposing sides of a conflict<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>working in a city that is strange to them<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>wanted by both sides of the conflict<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>offerered money and incentives for their services to each side<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>deal with a beautiful woman who is likewise caught between the opposing sides<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>always inherently smarter than everyone else&#8211;both always know what&#8217;s going on<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>cocky and confident<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>both captured by one side of the conflict and tortured by some big dude for information<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span>\u00c2\u00a0And I could go on for awhile.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay; maybe I&#8217;m exaggerating a little&#8211;there are a couple other differences between Ned and the Samurai besides their ethnicity.\u00c2\u00a0 But not many.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just imagine two circles, the circles of a Venn diagram.\u00c2\u00a0 The Samurai from Yojimbo would be one circle, and Ned Beaumont would be the other circle.\u00c2\u00a0 The overlapping circle, naturally, would be their similarities.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Samurai&#8217;s circle, it would say &#8220;Japanese.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 In Ned&#8217;s circle, it would say &#8220;American.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 And that would be the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}