{"id":163,"date":"2010-07-11T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2014-06-03T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T17:35:16","slug":"what-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"What I know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you ever happened to wonder. And so I can, you know, keep track:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I know what Avogadro&#8217;s number is for (though I&#8217;d have to look up the actual number).<\/li>\n<li>I know that Ernest Hemingway loved cats, and more than sixty currently live on his estate in Florida. And more than half of those are polydactyl, meaning they have a few extra toes.<\/li>\n<li>I know that the medical term for redness is erythema, and sweating is diaphoresis.<\/li>\n<li>I know that the first two notes of &#8220;My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean&#8221; is a sixth.<\/li>\n<li>I know that the plural of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">opus<\/span> is <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">opera<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>I know that all the Central American countries became independent nations on the same day (my birthday, in fact, 135 years before I was born).<\/li>\n<li>I know that Carita doesn&#8217;t eat meat, Jill J. doesn&#8217;t drink alcohol and Terri doesn&#8217;t eat fried foods (except for chips and salsa, of which she is something of a connoisseur). Hey, I pay attention to my friends!<\/li>\n<li>I know the difference between further and farther, and continual and continuous.<\/li>\n<li>I can name all the books of the Bible, though if you ask me to I might have to sing them.<\/li>\n<li>I can fill in the states on a blank U.S. map. Right quickly, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">you<\/span> know?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BTW, I also know I&#8217;ll be able to recognize any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmuch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Feldman<\/a> fans who answer the question.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll think of more things to add. Then I&#8217;ll start listing what I don&#8217;t know. (Oy.)<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;\">do<\/span> you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case you ever happened to wonder. And so I can, you know, keep track: I know what Avogadro&#8217;s number is for (though I&#8217;d have to look up the actual number). I know that Ernest Hemingway loved cats, and more than sixty currently live on his estate in Florida. And more than half of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}