{"id":750,"date":"2003-01-07T22:48:40","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T06:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=750"},"modified":"2023-02-02T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:19:04","slug":"would-a-yankee-professor-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"would a Yankee professor lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent <a href=\"https:\/\/brucesherwood.net\/\">Dad<\/a> a pretty piece of meteorite, without explanation, knowing that he and his <a href=\"https:\/\/ruthchabay.net\/\">missus<\/a> would have fun guessing what it is.  I had never seen stuff like it: lumps of olivine (a translucent silicate rock) in a matrix of nickel-iron, nicely polished.  When I saw that it had been delivered, I called, and Dad asked: &#8220;So what kind of monsters can I repel with this talisman?&#8221;  (That suggested kryptonite, but I found no smooth way to slip that hint into the conversation.)  <a href=\"http:\/\/punto-feliz.com\/\">Kid Brother<\/a> had been visiting and it seems he exposed them to DnD-style gaming, which they had never done though they&#8217;re big fans of <i>Myst<\/i> and the like.<\/p>\n<p>Stop me if I&#8217;ve mentioned this before:  Some weeks ago my One True Ex took me to a gem show in San Mateo.  (She goes to these things every <i>n<\/i> months and buys pearls which she flogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antir.sca.org\/\">SCA<\/a> events.)  We spent an afternoon feasting our eyes on pretty rocks, fossils, rocks, netsuke and of course meteorites.  I spent like a sailor, tsk tsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent Dad a pretty piece of meteorite, without explanation, knowing that he and his missus would have fun guessing what it is. I had never seen stuff like it: lumps of olivine (a translucent silicate rock) in a matrix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=750\">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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mememe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4470,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/4470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}