{"id":188,"date":"2001-05-23T22:26:48","date_gmt":"2001-05-24T03:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=188"},"modified":"2001-05-23T22:26:48","modified_gmt":"2001-05-24T03:26:48","slug":"my-god-is-greenland-really-that-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2001\/05\/23\/my-god-is-greenland-really-that-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"my god is greenland really that huge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the word of the day is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/cgi-bin\/dict.pl?term=usurp\">usurp<\/a> &#8211; thanks Tara.  nice to converse with someone in your daily stream of existence who is able leap from esoteric semantics to obtuse cartography in a single bound.  when was the last time <b>you<\/b> discussed the mercatur projection map?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>i&#8217;m sitting in the chair at Union Station wating for Bruno the barber today reading the Toronto Sun, something i don&#8217;t often do, and i burst out laughing, almost causing Bruno to graze this guy&#8217;s scalp.<\/p>\n<p>in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/TorontoNews\/ts.ts-05-17-0004.html\">this article <\/a>about Ontario members of parliament seeking pay raises into 6 figures, some MP is quoted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The risk factor for an MP is very high,&#8221; said the Liberal. &#8220;We can lose our job every four years.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>boo-fucking-hoo for you, mister hard-done-by MP.  give us a break, dipstick.  in the real world, you can lose your job every four frickin minutes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the word of the day is usurp &#8211; thanks Tara. nice to converse with someone in your daily stream of existence who is able leap from esoteric semantics to obtuse cartography in a single bound. when was the last time you discussed the mercatur projection map? i&#8217;m sitting in the chair at Union Station wating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}