{"id":2213,"date":"2007-08-01T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2007-08-01T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T20:58:16","slug":"eight-random-facts-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/eight-random-facts-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight random facts meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tagged by <a href=\"http:\/\/greenespace.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/eight-random-facts-meme.html\">someone<\/a> who already knows all of my secrets and wants to know more. So&#8217;s I&#8217;m to reveal eight random facts about me and then tag 8 people who are asked to do the same. Here goes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>My head was completely shaved until I was 13 year old. But I&#8217;m making up for that now.<\/li>\n<li>As far as eggplant goes, I&#8217;ve had my fill. I experienced complete Tantric overkill one summer in Turkey during which a different eggplant dish was served to me every day for two weeks. I now avoid eggplant dishes.<\/li>\n<li>I have never been in South America.<\/li>\n<li>Every morning I finish the NYTimes Crossword before going to work &#8212; except for Fridays.<\/li>\n<li>One of the poems I first published in News and Observer disappeared from their archives but no matter a copy ended up on a website in South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>\nI failed freshman English the first time through. Two misspelled words and you were out. I was always out. Thank gawd fore cumpoterz.<\/li>\n<li>For a year, I lived in an airy farm house that I heated with wood in the winter. That as a bad idea. But now that same place is the home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markhewittpottery.com\">Mark Hewitt&#8217;s Pottery<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I spent one Spring Break during college working for Manpower and bagging little pine seedlings for Arbor Day. The rest of the crew were alcoholic Viet Nam vets. I got the boss to buy us all rubber gloves on the second day. We all had cracked hands on the first day. As a reward I was allowed to seal the bags instead of sticking my hands in the water. And my friends the vets all offered to buy me drinks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I tag <a href=\"http:\/\/danicar.wordpress.com\/\">Danica<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/alchemist.livejournal.com\/\">Kevin<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/about.php\">Bora<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmarshall.blogspot.com\/\">Cathy<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/mistersugar.com\/\">Anton<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungryphotographer.org\/\">Kelly Jo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pomerantz\/blog\/\">Jeff<\/a>,  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/bascha\/blog\/\">Bascha<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tagged by someone who already knows all of my secrets and wants to know more. So&#8217;s I&#8217;m to reveal eight random facts about me and then tag 8 people who are asked to do the same. Here goes: My head was completely shaved until I was 13 year old. But I&#8217;m making up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}