{"id":1245,"date":"2019-07-05T18:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T18:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterschireson.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:33:34","slug":"causation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterschireson.com\/causation\/","title":{"rendered":"Causation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Acquittal is caused by crime,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tooth decay by Cupid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter causes diligence which causes nuns,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and Popeye is caused by spinach and the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One leaf causes Fall,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which causes New England and sin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunset Boulevard causes hitch-hikers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and Cadillac Eldorados, which cause men&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to reach over, causing night sweats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insults are cause for accounting,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>disasters are cause for Zen masters,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and heartache causes religion,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which causes heartbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Divorces for cause are caused by marriage,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which causes parenthood,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which, in its turn, causes because I said so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drowning causes confessions,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the mouth filled with vocabulary causes cowardice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One whiff causes the buck&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to snort and stomp the ground,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>straining to locate you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>without regard to beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acquittal is caused by crime,<\/p>\n<p>tooth decay by Cupid.<\/p>\n<p>Winter causes diligence which causes nuns,<\/p>\n<p>and Popeye is caused by spinach and the ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Causation - Peter Schireson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peterschireson.com\/causation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Causation - Peter Schireson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Acquittal is caused by crime, tooth decay by Cupid. 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