{"id":626,"date":"2009-03-23T19:10:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2009-03-23T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T00:10:57","slug":"two-things-i-learned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/two-things-i-learned-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Things I Learned Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Graham crackers, of all things, were <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graham_crackers\" target=\"_blank\">originally envisioned as a sort of &#8220;health food<\/a>&#8221; that would discourage young men from acting on &#8220;impure&#8221; carnal impulses and engaging in &#8220;self-abuse&#8221;.\u00a0 They are named after the kooky fellow who believed a diet of bland foods could achieve this goal.\u00a0 The guy who invented Corn Flakes had similar motives.\u00a0 I am not making this up. (I learned this from Loser Domi, in a conversation that had nothing to do with hockey, over at Pension Plan Puppets);<\/li>\n<li>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeem.com\/groups\/nkKscdAL,raymond-scott\/\/music\/w80DsEGE\/powerhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;factory music&#8221; in Bugs Bunny cartoons<\/a> is a song called &#8220;Powerhouse&#8221; by a fellow named Raymond Scott.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Graham crackers, of all things, were originally envisioned as a sort of &#8220;health food&#8221; that would discourage young men from acting on &#8220;impure&#8221; carnal impulses and engaging in &#8220;self-abuse&#8221;. They are named after the kooky fellow who believed a diet of bland foods could achieve this goal. The guy who invented Corn Flakes had [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}