{"id":940,"date":"2006-12-18T08:54:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/18\/oooh-shiny-thing\/"},"modified":"2006-12-18T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T08:54:49","slug":"oooh-shiny-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/18\/oooh-shiny-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Oooh! Shiny Thing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually read blog carnivals much, and it&#8217;s probably a good thing. Scott&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/acephalous.typepad.com\/acephalous\/2006\/12\/the_45th_annual.html\">cryptic version of the History Carnival<\/a> led me to spend a really ridiculous amount of time reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.investigations.4-lom.com\/2006\/12\/13\/cavalry-charges-shock\/\">blog posts about cavalry tactics in the English Civil War<\/a> (that&#8217;s the first of several). And, really, I have no need to know this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was a much more interesting read than what I was supposed to be doing. I also liked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theculture.org\/rich\/sharpblue\/archives\/000157.html\">ancient Egypt in ten minutes<\/a> link, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dammit, I have my own job to do. Stop posting things that are more interesting than the application folders I have to read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually read blog carnivals much, and it&#8217;s probably a good thing. Scott&#8217;s cryptic version of the History Carnival led me to spend a really ridiculous amount of time reading blog posts about cavalry tactics in the English Civil War (that&#8217;s the first of several). And, really, I have no need to know this&#8230;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/18\/oooh-shiny-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oooh! Shiny Thing!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}