{"id":625,"date":"2007-10-06T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/10\/06\/to-do-lists-of-the-dead\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T16:15:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T16:15:41","slug":"to-do-lists-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/10\/06\/to-do-lists-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"To Do Lists of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m borderline religious about To Do Lists. For example, when I go to bed, I often remind myself that while it&#8217;s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven, it&#8217;s easier for a rich man to get into heaven than it is for most individuals to complete three projects with overlapping deadlines on time, unless they have a To Do List to help them prioritize.<br \/>\nSo I got to thinking about To Do Lists, and religions, and how some Mormons used to baptize people after they&#8217;d passed on. And I thought I could perform a similar service by creating To Do Lists for the dead.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what I have so far:<br \/>\n<b>Richard Burton<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Use <a href = \"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_voice_phenomenon\">EVP<\/a> to star as lovable robot king in upcoming Pixar film.\n<li> Possess body of small dog and make it sing songs from <i>Camelot<\/i>.\n<li> Stop haunting Elizabeth Taylor&#8217;s underwear.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Richard Nixon<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Get Facebook account.\n<li> Fill Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s shoes with ectoplasm.\n<li> Stop haunting Henry Kissinger&#8217;s underwear.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Got any you&#8217;d like to add?<br \/>\n<i>update<\/i>: a pal just pointed out that <a href = \"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Do-Lists-Dead-Jonathan-Katz\/dp\/0740700359\"><b>Dr. Katz<\/a><\/b> had the exact same idea 7 years ago. Dang you Dr. Katz! Why are you always 7 years ahead of me with <i>everything<\/i>?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m borderline religious about To Do Lists. For example, when I go to bed, I often remind myself that while it&#8217;s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into heaven, it&#8217;s easier for a rich man to get into heaven than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-and-also-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}