{"id":1126,"date":"2003-11-29T14:56:05","date_gmt":"2003-11-29T22:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2005-08-25T19:27:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T03:27:29","slug":"live-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"live and learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QOTD: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I&#8217;ve seen a lot of science-fiction movies.  Before now I never knew what a couple hundred thousand flying metal squid fighting a couple thousand heavily armed steel apes in a concrete hemisphere about a quarter mile across while occasional giant drill bits fall from the ceiling like deadly stalactites (pause for breath) <em>looked like.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/examinedlife.typepad.com\/johnbelle\/2003\/11\/matrix_revoluti.html\">John &#038; Belle Have A Blog: Matrix Revolutions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I wonder how many of you who write raw HTML take a secret pleasure in re-wrapping the lines to emphasize the phrasing, using EOL as an invisible demi-comma.  <i>(<strong>2004 Oct 26:<\/strong> That habit came back to bite me, when I converted my archives to WordPress which may be considered to have a bug when it comes to newlines.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QOTD: I&#8217;ve seen a lot of science-fiction movies. Before now I never knew what a couple hundred thousand flying metal squid fighting a couple thousand heavily armed steel apes in a concrete hemisphere about a quarter mile across while occasional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-neep-neep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}