{"id":5865,"date":"2011-01-21T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2011-01-21T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T04:00:08","slug":"please-dont-beat-the-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5865","title":{"rendered":"Please don&#8217;t beat the Dutch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5374893123\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5007\/5374893123_95a2a9fd5b.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It snowed again last night, though not enough to really cause much trouble with my morning commute. I was in at work by the not unreasonable hour of 8:30 a.m. And the day went by fairly quickly, especially right near the end, when all the steps involved in processing a countersigned book contract somehow made a couple of hours vanish right out from under me.<\/p>\n<p>The bit of Forgotten English on my desk calendar today is &#8220;beats the Dutch,&#8221; meaning &#8220;something extraordinary.&#8221; The calendar goes on to inform me that &#8220;&#8216;That beats the Dutch and the Dutch beats the Devil&#8217; is the superlative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today was really a Dutch-beating kind of day, but, amazingly enough, it&#8217;s the weekend again, so that&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,114,52],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-weather","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"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=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}