{"id":589,"date":"2009-10-23T22:53:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T03:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2009-10-23T22:53:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T03:53:50","slug":"some-news-and-such","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Some News and Such"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>** Ok, so <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8323590.stm\">she admits it<\/a>. They knew all along that the kid wasn&#8217;t in the balloon. I&#8217;m so happy that&#8217;s over. We won&#8217;t hear any more about now, right? Right? Right?<\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/0,1518,654167,00.html\">Asterix turns 50<\/a>! I remember first reading Asterix as a kid. The Romans all spoke in Latin phrases that have made it to the modern day, but didn&#8217;t actually make sense in the context of the strip. Maybe one guy would say, &#8220;In vino veritas&#8221; and the other would reply, &#8220;semper fidelis, sic, id est.&#8221; At least, that&#8217;s how I remember it. It was my first introduction to Latin.<\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/oct\/24\/dave-eggers-where-the-wild-things-are\">An extract<\/a> from Dave Eggers&#8217;s novel based on &#8220;Where the Wild Things Are&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2009\/10\/23\/craigslist-not-liable-for-prostitution-ads\/\">Craigslist isn&#8217;t liable for prostitution ads.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** Ok, so she admits it. They knew all along that the kid wasn&#8217;t in the balloon. I&#8217;m so happy that&#8217;s over. We won&#8217;t hear any more about now, right? Right? Right? ** Asterix turns 50! I remember first reading Asterix as a kid. The Romans all spoke in Latin phrases that have made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}