{"id":10425,"date":"2007-02-01T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T16:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/02\/01\/10425.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:44","slug":"splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/02\/01\/splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Splash!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So. Yesterday I was listening to NPR, as happens, when I heard a piece they are calling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=7102236\">Iran's Pollution Worries Come by Air and Water<\/a> about the contamination in the Caspian Sea. So, they start with the sound of dredging of one of the ports in northern Iran. They use a sort of enormous vacuum, it seems, to suck up the fine sediment, to keep the harbor deep enough for boats to come in and out. And, of course, because people nearby fling their rubbish into the water, they spend a lot of their time unclogging the vacuum hose, as they&#8217;ve picked up old boots and plastic bags and so on. So there they are, on this huge ship, spending the whole day, day after day, digging crud out of the vacuum hose. And by the end of the day, they&#8217;ve got a whole boatload of rubbish, right? And what do they do with it all? They take it ...\n<p>Yes...\n<p>No, they actually do. They take the ship out into the deep water, and they take all the garbage...\n<p>I&#8217;m serious, here.\n<p>They...\n<p>Oh, never mind. You&#8217;ve had days like that, too.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Yesterday I was listening to NPR, as happens, when I heard a piece they are calling Iran&#8217;s Pollution Worries Come by Air and Water about the contamination in the Caspian Sea. So, they start with the sound of dredging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17950,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10425\/revisions\/17950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}