{"id":467,"date":"2003-02-09T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/09\/"},"modified":"2003-02-09T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-09T20:33:00","slug":"467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/09\/467\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, where to start, where to start? <\/p>\n<p>I have christened this blog Asparagus Pee, Gooblek &#038; Other Neat Stuff because I love neat stuff. I once dreamed of editing a major magazine publication called <i>Neat Stuff<\/i> that would be a general purpose magazine of the best articles about everything. I&#8217;m intrigued by things like asparagus pee &#8211; you eat a little bite of asparagus, and within minutes your pee smells funny all day &#8211; how odd is that? <\/p>\n<p>Gooblek is something I just discovered my wife playing with with my 3 1\/2 year-old daughter yesterday. It&#8217;s nothing but a stiff suspension of cornstarch in water, but it&#8217;s the neatest stuff you ever saw: you can slap it or break it or roll it around like a ball, but if you leave it stand for a second, it &#8216;melts&#8217; into a shiny wet puddle. If you drop a ball of it, it damn near, but not quite, bounces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, where to start, where to start? I have christened this blog Asparagus Pee, Gooblek &#038; Other Neat Stuff because I love neat stuff. I once dreamed of editing a major magazine publication called Neat Stuff that would be a general purpose magazine of the best articles about everything. I&#8217;m intrigued by things like asparagus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/09\/467\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}