{"id":84,"date":"2010-09-15T23:07:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=84"},"modified":"2010-09-15T23:07:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:07:11","slug":"wednesday-wanderings-crocs-cats-quotes-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Wanderings (Crocs, Cats, Quotes and more!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a title=\"Please pull off to the side of the road to avoid YIKES!!!!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/telegraph\/multimedia\/archive\/01294\/sign-crocs_1294922i.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this picture<\/a> was amusing.\u00a0 I think it may be photoshopped, but I am not sure.\u00a0 I know I&#8217;ve seen it before but can&#8217;t remember where.<\/p>\n<p>There are unusual experiments done in the name of science, and then there are really off-the-wall experiments done..<a title=\"Cat herding.\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5634257\/ikea-let-loose-a-herd-of-100-cats-into-store-to-see-what-happens\" target=\"_blank\">.in the name of furniture<\/a>?\u00a0 The video in the article at this link doesn&#8217;t explain much of the why, and I really wish there had been more video of the cats running around, but it&#8217;s interesting and weird in any case.<\/p>\n<p>Some of <a title=\"23 quotes from 18 comedians\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenhumour.com\/2010\/09\/09\/funny-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">these quotes<\/a> were familiar; all of them were amusing.\u00a0 I was a little disappointed that they didn&#8217;t have something better from George Carlin or at least a couple more of his one-liners, although what they did provide was funny.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the <a title=\"The Good Old Days\" href=\"http:\/\/funpics.classicfun.ws\/var\/resizes\/Funpics\/Grandad%20remembering%20the%20good%20old%20days.jpg?m=1283863558\" target=\"_blank\">good ol&#8217; days<\/a>.\u00a0 I found the linked image there to be a different and amusing take on the them.\u00a0 Taking a different tack, though, <a title=\"104 Years Ago...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general70\/100yrs.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> looks at how life in the U.S. was one-hundred four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I have seen <a title=\"Department Store Pranks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyjunk.com\/funny_pictures\/386625\/Why+women+shouldn+t+take+men+shopping\/\" target=\"_blank\">this list of department store pranks<\/a> before, but it&#8217;s still funny.\u00a0 I doubt it&#8217;s based on reality, but it&#8217;s still amusing.<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the late post but, technically, in my time zone, it <em>is<\/em> still Wednesday, so it&#8217;s valid.\u00a0 I built this list of links up over the last week and then totally spaced actually publishing this post until I was on my way home from work tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this picture was amusing.\u00a0 I think it may be photoshopped, but I am not sure.\u00a0 I know I&#8217;ve seen it before but can&#8217;t remember where. There are unusual experiments done in the name of science, and then there are really off-the-wall experiments done&#8230;in the name of furniture?\u00a0 The video in the article at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}