{"id":75,"date":"2008-02-17T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/17\/the-fool-at-the-table\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T03:05:14","slug":"the-fool-at-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/17\/the-fool-at-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"The fool at the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s always some fool who loses. So if you look around the table and you don&#8217;t see him, you&#8217;re the fool.<\/p>\n<p>-Coy, The Nautical Chart, Arturo Perez-Reverte<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"\/coffee_images\/poker-table.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought of this quote recently when I heard a similar comment during an interview with actor Steve Carell by NPR&#8217;s Terry Gross. Steve plays a character in The Office, which if you haven&#8217;t seen it, is a TV sitcom about office culture. Think live-action Dilbert. Michael Scott is the name of the clueless (but not evil) boss character in the show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;that&#8217;s basically what Michael is up against. He thinks people think he&#8217;s cool. He thinks people like him and think he&#8217;s funny and charming but he&#8217;s really none of those things. And incidentally, when you say everyone knows a Michael Scott&#8230;I guess the rule of thumb&#8230;Ricky told me this in regards to the character he plays, David Brent, in the BBC version of The Office, that if you don&#8217;t know Michael Scott, then you ARE Michael Scott. So better that you actually have a frame of reference for him!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always some fool who loses. So if you look around the table and you don&#8217;t see him, you&#8217;re the fool. -Coy, The Nautical Chart, Arturo Perez-Reverte I thought of this quote recently when I heard a similar comment during an interview with actor Steve Carell by NPR&#8217;s Terry Gross. Steve plays a character in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/02\/17\/the-fool-at-the-table\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The fool at the table&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-and-tv","category-sociology-and-class"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}