{"id":264,"date":"2002-04-23T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-23T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2002-04-23T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-23T19:16:00","slug":"264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">And I call myself an English major&#8230; &#8220;You <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/quiz\/questions\/0,5957,475413,00.html\">scored<\/a> 4 out of a possible 15. &#8216;[Your] wit&#8217;s as thick as Tewsksbury mustard&#8217;, and your answers a veritable comedy of errors.&#8221; Well, happy birthday anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/the-tech.mit.edu\/Shakespeare\/works.html\">Billy boy<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">It&#8217;s also the birthday of novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.psu.edu\/iasweb\/nabokov\/nsintro.htm\">Vladamir Nabokov<\/a>. I heartily recommend <em>Pale Fire<\/em> and <em>Pnin<\/em>, two wonderful books. And I wonder, as I once did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/falsefish.html\">here<\/a>, is it possible that, Nabokov created the smiley emoticon even though he died in 1977? He wrote: &#8220;I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile &#8212; some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would now like to trace in reply to your question.&#8221;<\/font> <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"blue\">\ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I call myself an English major&#8230; &#8220;You scored 4 out of a possible 15. &#8216;[Your] wit&#8217;s as thick as Tewsksbury mustard&#8217;, and your answers a veritable comedy of errors.&#8221; Well, happy birthday anyway, Billy boy. It&#8217;s also the birthday of novelist Vladamir Nabokov. I heartily recommend Pale Fire and Pnin, two wonderful books. And &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=264\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}