{"id":8801,"date":"2002-10-25T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2002-10-25T23:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/25\/waiting-on-ed-mcmahon-to-bring-me-my-prize\/"},"modified":"2002-10-25T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2002-10-25T23:59:12","slug":"waiting-on-ed-mcmahon-to-bring-me-my-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/waiting-on-ed-mcmahon-to-bring-me-my-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting on Ed McMahon to bring me my prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berhardt Varenius announced a <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/varenius.blogspot.com\/2002_10_13_varenius_archive.html#83194744\">blog<br \/>\nrenaming contest<\/a> the other day.<\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>I&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nthinking lately that the name &#8220;Varenius&#8221; for the blog is not a very revealing<br \/>\none. It may be time to give the blog a new name that better reflects the actual<br \/>\ncontents here. Here&#8217;s the list of alternatives thus far:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>All Anti-Socialist, All the Time<br \/><\/font><font\ncolor=#3333ff>In Praise of Norwegian Blogger<br \/>Burke, Burke, and More<br \/>\nBurke<br \/>Varenius&#8217; Vacation Notices<\/font><\/p>\n<p>and it appear I have won!<\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>The results for the<br \/>\nRename the Blog Contest are in, and the winner is&#8230; Anti-Socialist Tendencies,<br \/>\nsuggested by Atheist to a Theist! Congratulations Jeff! Your prize is&#8230; uhh&#8230;<br \/>\nhmmm&#8230; let me see&#8230; [rummages through junk on desk] Oh yes! A toenail clipper<br \/>\nwith a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe on it! Direct from a tacky little shop<br \/>\nin Mexico City, and forged in the finest steel mills of Korea. Enjoy it in good<br \/>\nhealth, you lucky dog you!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>And now, I officially rename this blog&#8230; Anti-Socialist<br \/>\nTendencies!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>I am eagerly awaiting my tacky toenail clippers and I won&#8217;t give them up<br \/>\nwithout a fight, so airport security checkers beware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berhardt Varenius announced a blog renaming contest the other day. I&#8217;ve been thinking lately that the name &#8220;Varenius&#8221; for the blog is not a very revealing one. It may be&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-8801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}