{"id":322,"date":"2006-04-14T11:06:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T16:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=322"},"modified":"2006-11-09T17:27:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T22:27:16","slug":"wikipedia-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random surfing led me to  <a href=\"http:\/\/timworstall.typepad.com\/timworstall\/2006\/04\/wikipedia_meme.html\">Tim Worstall<\/a>, who had this idea:<\/p>\n<div class=quote>Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your blog, including the year.<\/div>\n<p>I won&#8217;t limit myself to the numbers above.  Let&#8217;s just see what&#8217;s interesting about August 24:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>79 AD: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Vesuvius\">Mount Vesuvius erupts<\/a>.<br \/>\n1456: The printing of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gutenberg_Bible\">Gutenberg Bible<\/a> is completed.<br \/>\n1853:  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Potato_chips\">Potato chips<\/a> are first prepared.<br \/>\n1891:  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Edison\">Thomas Edison<\/a> patents the motion picture camera.<br \/>\n1944: World War II: French and Allied troops start the attack on Paris.<br \/>\n1968: France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world&#8217;s fifth nuclear power. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Births:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1817: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aleksey_Konstantinovich_Tolstoy\">Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy<\/a><br \/>\n1929: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yasser_Arafat\">Yasser Arafat<\/a><br \/>\n1973: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Chappelle\">David Chappelle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Deaths:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1042: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_V\">Michael V<\/a>, Byzantine Emperor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random surfing led me to Tim Worstall, who had this idea: Go to Wikipedia and look up your birth day (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your blog, including the year. I won&#8217;t limit myself to the numbers above. Let&#8217;s just see what&#8217;s interesting about August 24: Facts: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}