{"id":2895,"date":"2008-02-05T22:17:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T03:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2008-02-05T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T03:18:00","slug":"little-lamb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"Little lamb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minortweaks.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/news_to_me_5.html\">Minor Tweaks<\/a>, I learn that:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb.&#8221;<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Yeah, you know, old&#8230;whatshername? Okay, so &#8220;famous&#8221; is maybe a relative concept.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I learned more via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2008\/02\/05\/national\/main3792349.shtml\">CBS News<\/a>:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">They are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in connection with the Aug. 12 fire that destroyed a vacant house in Sterling where town officials say Mary Elizabeth Sawyer was born in 1806.<\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Sarah Josepha Hale reportedly published a poem in 1830 about Sawyer, as a child, bringing her lamb to school with her. Other accounts, however, claim the original writer was a young man who was inspired by the incident.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22451457\/\">Robert Frost&#8217;s home was vandalized<\/a>, now this. Which poet&#8217;s house will be next, I wonder? These things always happen in threes, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Minor Tweaks, I learn that: Two men are accused of burning down the birthplace of the woman made famous by the nursery rhyme &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb.&#8221; Yeah, you know, old&#8230;whatshername? Okay, so &#8220;famous&#8221; is maybe a relative concept. I learned more via CBS News: They are scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2895\">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-2895","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\/2895"}],"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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}