{"id":1050,"date":"2006-11-26T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2006-11-26T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T14:03:00","slug":"sunday-sillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sillies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Is <em>that<\/em> the way the girls are in Texas? According the <em>Houston Press,<\/em> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonkette.com\/politics\/shelley-sekula+gibbs\/pretend-rep-clearly-beloved-by-constituency-216976.php\">Wonkette,<\/a> a Republican woman running for Tom deLay&#8217;s old seat had to do so through a write-in campaign. Unfortunate, since her name was the less than memorable &#8220;Shelley Sekula-Gibbs&#8221;, many voters mis-spelled it and the Fort Bend County election office had to decide which of these was valid. You get a flavour, I think, of Texas politics when you learn that one of the votes counted in her favour was actually spelled &#8220;Shelly DraculaCunt Gibs&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The Swedish edition of Wikipaedia <a href=\"http:\/\/sv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/F&amp;auml;bod\">claims<\/a> that there used to be a law forbidding men to be stay alone with cows and goats, lest they be tempted to bestiality, a crime which was until 1864 punishable by death.<\/li>\n<li>this <a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2006\/11\/measuring_the_s.html\">reference to an experiment<\/a> by Scott Eric Kaufman should screw up his results by offering evidence of transmisison backwards in time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that the way the girls are in Texas? According the Houston Press, via Wonkette, a Republican woman running for Tom deLay&#8217;s old seat had to do so through a write-in campaign. Unfortunate, since her name was the less than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1050\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}