{"id":184,"date":"2006-08-30T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2006-08-30T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T13:00:12","slug":"shorten-your-life-by-two-four-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Shorten your life by <strike>two<\/strike> four  minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beowulf: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswalk.com\/family\/home_school\/1261413.html\" title=\"&quot;From the Nielsen Hayden Empire&quot;\">the truth that liberals tried to hide.<\/a> Actually, I think this is rather sweet. It reminds me of a point that a priest friend made years ago about the people who think there are demons in nicotine etc: that they have probably never read a novel in their lives. The argument that it is <em>terribly wicked<\/em> to tell children lies like that is oe of the points where I part company with pharyngular atheism.<\/p>\n\n<p>Click and watch. I think my mother may actually be a reincarnation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/clip:77426\">this kitten,<\/a> whose attitude to a Mac is very similar to hers, if a bit more active.<\/p>\n\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=77426\" quality=\"best\" scale=\"exactfit\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n\n<p>And now back to work.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beowulf: the truth that liberals tried to hide. Actually, I think this is rather sweet. It reminds me of a point that a priest friend made years ago about the people who think there are demons in nicotine etc: that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=184\">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\/184"}],"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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}