{"id":188,"date":"2006-09-06T07:18:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T11:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2006-09-06T07:18:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T11:18:34","slug":"time-on-their-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Time on their hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/cp\/search\/poe\/?i=14215366&amp;q=pluto&amp;CMP=EMC_20060905scifi\">currently on Cafepress<\/a> 2,030 different slogans, verbal and visual, commemorating the expulsion of Pluto from the register of planets. These are available on 35,100 products. The page I am looking at (thanks, Jeremy) claims to rank them by sales, though I can&#8217;t believe that the ones below about 100 have ever sold anything. What matters, though, is that the attempt was made. I don&#8217;t know why this one piece of frivolity strikes me as the the perfect summation of a society of abundant capitalism, where people no sooner think of a joke than they try to sell it. File under &#8220;Things for which Tim Berners Lee did not receive his knighthood&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p>Also: a <a href=\"http:\/\/london.craigslist.org\/w4m\/202723206.html\">completely mysterious ad<\/a> on Craiglist. Someone in Venice, California, who wants to have a child by &#8220;A wealthy platonic friend&#8221; in London. What, in Venice, does &#8220;platonic&#8221; mean? What is supposed to be the attraction of this offer for the wealthy father?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are currently on Cafepress 2,030 different slogans, verbal and visual, commemorating the expulsion of Pluto from the register of planets. These are available on 35,100 products. The page I am looking at (thanks, Jeremy) claims to rank them by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=188\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}