{"id":727,"date":"2002-11-26T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2002-11-27T05:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/11\/26\/727.html"},"modified":"2002-11-26T21:10:29","modified_gmt":"2002-11-27T05:10:29","slug":"higgledy-heffalump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/11\/26\/higgledy-heffalump\/","title":{"rendered":"Higgledy Heffalump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was hoping someone would rise to the challenge and provide Eleanor with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower\/d.html\">double-dactyl<\/a>, and sure enough, Shmuel sent along a nice one (thanks, Shmuel!):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Higgledy-piggledy<br>\nEleanor Heffalump<br>\nJumped from her box with no<br>\nName on her head.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Jed Hartman tried<br>\nCyberdemocracy,<br>\nSpurned the results and chose<br>\nNao's instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Shmuel provided an alternate last line&#8212;\"This one instead\"&#8212;in case \"Nao\" was only one syllable, but in fact it's two; rhymes with \"Day-o.\"  Although back in the old days she used to sometimes make written puns as if it were pronounced like \"now.\")<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Nao, she notes that she didn't provide Eleanor's species.  I have a query out to the person who I now think did; will provide credit when I know more.<\/p>\n<p>Nao adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The name] just popped out of the recesses of my brain, with no intermediary thought processes. Maybe Eleanor's telepathic?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Entirely possible.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping someone would rise to the challenge and provide Eleanor with a double-dactyl, and sure enough, Shmuel sent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heffalumps"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}