{"id":127,"date":"2004-03-23T10:16:13","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2004\/03\/23\/carpe_diem\/"},"modified":"2004-03-23T10:16:13","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T10:16:13","slug":"carpe_diem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/03\/23\/carpe_diem\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpe Diem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two news items made me giggle this morning:<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/040311\/137\/2bxsl.html\">Drunk Texas dad asks 11-year-old son to drive<\/a> &#8211; any bets on how long before the ex-wife takes this guy back to court?<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boatus.com\/news\/fish_strike.htm\">Attack carp<\/a> &#8211; Perhaps inspired by recent &#8220;preventative measures&#8221; in the international news, carp in the lower Missouri River are leaping out of the water when they see a boat coming. And they&#8217;re not trying to jump out of the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two news items made me giggle this morning: 1. Drunk Texas dad asks 11-year-old son to drive &#8211; any bets on how long before the ex-wife takes this guy back to court? 2. Attack carp &#8211; Perhaps inspired by recent &#8220;preventative measures&#8221; in the international news, carp in the lower Missouri River are leaping out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2004\/03\/23\/carpe_diem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carpe Diem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-moments-in-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}