{"id":1176,"date":"2008-12-31T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2008-12-31T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:31:08","slug":"pedant-on-the-loose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1176","title":{"rendered":"Pedant on the Loose!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/sunclipse\/2008\/12\/social_and_administrative_note.php\">mention<\/a> of a &#8220;First Night&#8221; celebration in Boston, coupled with memories of many stories about similar celebrations in upstate New York (Albany and Saratoga), have triggered this.<\/p>\n<p>The problem:  &#8220;First Night&#8221; celebrations are held on New Year&#8217;s <em>Eve<\/em>, which is the LAST night of the year.  I mean seriously, WTF?  After midnight, it&#8217;s A.M. \u2014 Morning*.  The organizers must be the same bunch of differently-abled mathletes that celebrated the new millennium when the calendar rolled over to 2000.<\/p>\n<p>*Don&#8217;t believe me?  Call someone normally asleep at 2 A.M. and see of the they don&#8217;t yell at you for waking them up at two in the morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake&#8217;s mention of a &#8220;First Night&#8221; celebration in Boston, coupled with memories of many stories about similar celebrations in upstate New York (Albany and Saratoga), have triggered this. The problem: &#8220;First Night&#8221; celebrations are held on New Year&#8217;s Eve, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1176\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,56],"tags":[217,369],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-time","tag-first-night","tag-pedantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}