{"id":10559,"date":"2007-07-11T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2007\/07\/11\/10559.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:56:53","slug":"alternately-olympic-ratcatchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2007\/07\/11\/alternately-olympic-ratcatchin\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternately, Olympic Rat-Catching!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I think the thing to do is to sock my Gentle Readers with a flurry of short pieces, because I haven&#8217;t the sustained time to write long ones. I could, as is my usual wont, gather the short pieces together, but then the compilation note would take a long time to get onto the web, and now that Your Humble Blogger has completed the fifteen-day suspension, it&#8217;s important to get the juices flowing again. Ahem.\n<p>So, about the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2007-07\/11\/content_6361119.htm\">two billion rats<\/a> ... Xinhua doesn&#8217;t seem to have made up its mind whether there are two billion rats or two billion mice. The picture appears to show field mice.\n<p>In other news, spokesmen for the Province of Hunan said that the Hunan No. 1 Intermediate People&#8217;s Court carried out the execution of the Piper. So the children are safe.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the thing to do is to sock my Gentle Readers with a flurry of short pieces, because I haven\u2019t the sustained time to write long ones. I could, as is my usual wont, gather the short pieces together,&#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-10559","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\/10559","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=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18059,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions\/18059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}