{"id":479,"date":"2005-09-16T06:06:27","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T11:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=479"},"modified":"2005-09-16T06:06:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T11:06:27","slug":"talking-bout-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Talking bout last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of meeting, for the first time, someone I&#8217;ve known for a hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Jenny, raconteur, nudge, sometime commenter on this blog, came to Chicago to visit, among other people, me! I have been corresponding with her for many a year, and found her to be even more gracious and ladylike in person. A very nice surprise. Now, if I could only get her to blog&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I got to meet the Great and Powerful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipass.net\/whitetho\/edcecil.htm\">Ed Zotti<\/a>, one of the contributors to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/\">Straight Dope<\/a>, close personal friend of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cecil_Adams\">Cecil Adams<\/a>, who signed one of his books and gave me one signed by Cecil. Tasty night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of meeting, for the first time, someone I&#8217;ve known for a hundred years. My friend Jenny, raconteur, nudge, sometime commenter on this blog, came to Chicago to visit, among other people, me! I have been corresponding with her for many a year, and found her to be even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}