{"id":128793,"date":"2015-11-03T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/03\/thelastdogfighter-prokopetz\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:55:20","slug":"thelastdogfighter-prokopetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/03\/thelastdogfighter-prokopetz\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-128793 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/03\/thelastdogfighter-prokopetz\/attachment\/128794\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nkcgksgZjZ1qewacoo1_540-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nkcgksgZjZ1qewacoo1_540-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tumblr_nkcgksgZjZ1qewacoo1_540-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thelastdogfighter.tumblr.com\/post\/123213704684\" target=\"_blank\">thelastdogfighter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/prokopetz.tumblr.com\/post\/123010716162\" target=\"_blank\">prokopetz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thesparkofrevolution.tumblr.com\/post\/112355723935\" target=\"_blank\">thesparkofrevolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blacktyranitar.tumblr.com\/post\/112355575844\" target=\"_blank\">blacktyranitar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thesparkofrevolution.tumblr.com\/post\/112354218175\" target=\"_blank\">thesparkofrevolution<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/jakovu.tumblr.com\/post\/112118822068\" target=\"_blank\">jakovu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dama3.tumblr.com\/post\/112116777417\" target=\"_blank\">dama3<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tastefullyoffensive.tumblr.com\/post\/112068627042\" target=\"_blank\">tastefullyoffensive<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Babylonian era problems. (photo via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/tbc34\" target=\"_blank\">tbc34<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>old school hate mail<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit instead. <br \/>The amount of correspondences complaining to and about this guy are HILARIOUS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Are you telling me we know about a specific guy who lived 5000 years ago, by name, because he was a huge asshole<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More like 4000 years ago but yes. Ea-nasir and his dodgy business deals.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And we haven\u2019t even touched on the true hilarity of the situation yet. Consider two additional facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He wasn\u2019t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir\u2019s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was <b>everywhere<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir\u2019s own house.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like, these are clay tablets. They\u2019re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren\u2019t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept <b>all<\/b> of his angry letters &#8211; hundreds of them &#8211; and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy <b>does<\/b> that?<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=0maIAgAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA276&amp;dq=ea-nasir&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=RdKUVcbaI5C7ogSdmY2gAQ&amp;ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=ea-nasir&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SOME LEGENDS ARE TOLD<\/p>\n<p>I MIGHT SELL DUST OR FAKE GOLD<\/p>\n<p>BUT YOU WILL REMEMBER ME<\/p>\n<p>FOR CENTURIES<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thelastdogfighter: prokopetz: thesparkofrevolution: blacktyranitar: thesparkofrevolution: jakovu: dama3: tastefullyoffensive: Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34) old school hate mail Imagine how pissed you have to be to engrave a rock Ok but there was this guy called Ea-nasir who was a total crook and would actually cheat people ought of good copper and sell them shit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/03\/thelastdogfighter-prokopetz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15144,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128795,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128793\/revisions\/128795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}