{"id":950,"date":"2007-11-07T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2007-11-07T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T20:29:00","slug":"gallimaufry-with-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=950","title":{"rendered":"Gallimaufry with Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&para; How is your vocabulary? I donated 300 grains of rice the first time that I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/freerice.com\/index.php\">this online game<\/a>. Then the AI started serving up all these Latinate terms. Level 50 is the top?? (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/odiousandpeculiar.blogspot.com\/\">Odious and Peculiar<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&para; Ancient Egyptians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/online\/features\/hierakonpolis\/zombies.html\">dealt with zombies too<\/a>. (Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a>.) Pluvialis agrees: <a href=\"http:\/\/fretmarks.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/contingency-plan-for-solanum-outbreak.html\"> we need to know these things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&para; Hecate is getting testy about <a href=\"http:\/\/hecatedemetersdatter.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/you-never-know.html\">media Witches<\/a>. I think there is a Gresham&#8217;s Law of spokespeople: the weird drive out the sensible.<\/p>\n<p>&para; Deborah Oak wonders <a href=\"http:\/\/templeofelvis.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/drawing-down-elvis.html\">if Elvis is a god yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&para; How is your vocabulary? I donated 300 grains of rice the first time that I tried this online game. Then the AI started serving up all these Latinate terms. Level 50 is the top?? (Hat tip: Odious and Peculiar.) &para; Ancient Egyptians dealt with zombies too. (Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds.) Pluvialis agrees: we need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,29],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogging","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-fk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":700,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=700","url_meta":{"origin":950,"position":0},"title":"Post-ritual trauma","author":"Chas S. 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