{"id":27858,"date":"2013-05-15T19:44:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/15\/one-of-the-most-remarkable-characteristics-of\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T19:44:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:44:22","slug":"one-of-the-most-remarkable-characteristics-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/15\/one-of-the-most-remarkable-characteristics-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One of the most remarkable characteristics of Sherlock Holmes was his power of throwing his brain out of action and switching all his thoughts onto lighter things whenever he had convinced himself that he could no longer work to advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,\u00a0<em>His Last Bow<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/polymnia.tumblr.com\/\">polymnia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2026And this is something that so often gets dropped out by those who don\u2019t know canon. The moments when Sherlock says (paraphrasing here, but the cites are easily produced) \u201cScrew this, Watson, let\u2019s go out to Romano\u2019s and have a big splurgey dinner!\u201d, or \u201cCome on, let\u2019s get the hell out of here, Tchaikovsky\u2019s conducting at Covent Garden tonight!\u201d Canonical!Holmes is ascetic by choice only: he kicks his transport to the kerb when he\u2019s working (or having trouble working). The rest of the time he doesn\u2019t mind indulging the body\u2019s and mind\u2019s love of food and music and other arts. Just think about \u201cA Dinner With Sherlock\u201d,  and the concert after.. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most remarkable characteristics of Sherlock Holmes was his power of throwing his brain out of action and switching all his thoughts onto lighter things whenever he had convinced himself that he could no longer work to advantage. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,\u00a0His Last Bow (via polymnia) \u2026And this is something that so often &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/15\/one-of-the-most-remarkable-characteristics-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}