{"id":7154,"date":"2007-04-23T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2019-01-12T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T16:02:50","slug":"another-outbreak-of-manchegan-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/another-outbreak-of-manchegan-madness","title":{"rendered":"Another Outbreak of Manchegan Madness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-679\" src=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/quixote.jpg\" alt=\"Don Quixote\" width=\"229\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/quixote.jpg 229w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/quixote-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>About a month ago I wrote about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/literarycompass.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/do-you-recognize-7-early-signs-of.html\">Manchegan Madness<\/a>, and it now appears that certain members of the blogging community may be experiencing early symptoms. Sylvia at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/classicalbookworm.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/22\/to-la-mancha\/\">Classical Bookworm<\/a>\u00a0reports that she has joined\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tiltingatwindmillsblog.wordpress.com\/\">Tilting at Windmills<\/a>, a group of readers who will be spending May and June reading about the exploits of the famed Don Quixote of La Mancha.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this before. It starts as a reading group but ends as a support group. Pretty soon they&#8217;ll be naming their pets Rocinante or Sancho Panza.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful! Manchegan Madness takes on many forms. It has definitely affected a young lady named Obelia medusa. Just take a look at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/little_world\/30571.html\">this<\/a>. And\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/little_world\/39277.html\">this<\/a>. Poor girl. She probably never even saw it coming.<\/p>\n<p>Take it from me: Manchegan Madness is nothing to be trifled with. How do I know? I&#8217;m in recovery myself. In fact, I&#8217;m listening to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1402563426?tag=nickslists-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;camp=211189&amp;link_code=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1402563426\">Don Quixote<\/a>\u00a0on audio cd to prove that I&#8217;m cured. Now, you&#8217;ll have to excuse me while I feed my dog Pippin. He gets snippy when he doesn&#8217;t get his second breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Update: There is now a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mancheganmadness.blogspot.com\/\">Manchegan Madness blog<\/a>\u00a0for all the afflicted. Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago I wrote about\u00a0Manchegan Madness, and it now appears that certain members of the blogging community may be experiencing early symptoms. Sylvia at\u00a0Classical Bookworm\u00a0reports that she has joined\u00a0Tilting at Windmills, a group of readers who will be spending May and June reading about the exploits of the famed Don Quixote of La Mancha. I&#8217;ve seen this before. It starts as a reading group but ends as a support group. Pretty soon they&#8217;ll be naming their pets Rocinante or Sancho Panza. Be careful! Manchegan Madness takes&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"Another Outbreak of Manchegan Madness?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,22],"tags":[161,1099],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-humor","tag-don-quixote","tag-manchegan-madness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/quixote.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1Ro","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7155,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/7155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}