{"id":140,"date":"2010-05-12T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-05-12T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T05:06:00","slug":"oddities-of-an-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Oddities of an evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold and windy and raining outside and here I am inside with a soaked dog. There is nothing like having a soaked long-haired dog like Molly wanting to lay her dripping muzzle in your lap.\u00c2\u00a0What more could a man ask for?<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/S-oxSpCTg3I\/AAAAAAAAApI\/uz-FPrmGV_U\/s1600\/wet-dog-web.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/S-oxSpCTg3I\/AAAAAAAAApI\/uz-FPrmGV_U\/s400\/wet-dog-web.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><i>(Tagged art courtesy of <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.banksy.co.uk\/\"><i>Banksy<\/i><\/a><i>.)<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Aside from the damp dog and weather, all is copacetic. <i>{*grin*}<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Fitting with the mood of the evening, I present five odd facts for your edification:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The symbol above the 3 key (#) is an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Number_sign\">octothrope<\/a>. Contrary to all the masses who incorrectly call it the pound sign or number sign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Thus all of you who post on a certain service featuring a blue bird logo and 140 character limits are abusing pregnant goldfish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A quarter has 119 groves around its edge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>So what strikes you as odd today?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold and windy and raining outside and here I am inside with a soaked dog. There is nothing like having a soaked long-haired dog like Molly wanting to lay her dripping muzzle in your lap.\u00c2\u00a0What more could a man ask for? (Tagged art courtesy of Banksy.) Aside from the damp dog and weather, all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=140\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oddities of an evening<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[175,74,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}