{"id":11818,"date":"2012-08-18T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2012-08-18T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T14:45:32","slug":"a-nogglean-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/18\/a-nogglean-law\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nogglean Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, all spring and summer we watched them work one of the horses at the public stable at the end of our farm road, and I took to calling the horse Boots because its legs were black.<\/p>\n<p>One day recently, I saw a woman riding the horse down the farm road, and I asked her what its name is.  &#8220;Cheyenne,&#8221; she said, and I explained that I&#8217;d called it Boots and now I&#8217;d call it by its right name from now on.  Later, I realized I hadn&#8217;t asked her name nor given her my name as she rode along, but who cares about the people, hey?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, it proves a data point that supports the Nogglean law that <strong>Cities in Wyoming make good names for horses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Compare and contrast the potential horse names from cities in Wyoming and Illinois:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Wyoming city<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Illinois city<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cheyenne<\/td>\n<td>Chicago<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cody<\/td>\n<td>Carbondale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Laramie<\/td>\n<td>Sauget<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Sheridan<\/td>\n<td>Rock Island<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Casper<\/td>\n<td>Joilet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Baggs<\/td>\n<td>Moline<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Q.E.D.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s fun fact:  There are almost as many incorporated municipalities in St. Louis County, Missouri (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Municipalities_of_St._Louis_County\" target=\"_blank\">91<\/a>) as there are in the entire state of Wyoming (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_cities_and_towns_in_Wyoming\" target=\"_blank\">99<\/a>).  <font size=\"1\"><i>How many are there in the state of Illinois?  <\/i><b>Too many.<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, all spring and summer we watched them work one of the horses at the public stable at the end of our farm road, and I took to calling the horse Boots because its legs were black. One day recently, I saw a woman riding the horse down the farm road, and I asked her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11820,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions\/11820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}