{"id":12605,"date":"2013-04-04T05:37:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T10:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2013-04-04T05:37:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T10:37:50","slug":"an-answer-too-detailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/an-answer-too-detailed\/","title":{"rendered":"An Answer Too Detailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the six-year-old asked me &#8220;What is <strong>bric-a-brac<\/strong>?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Every eager to help expand his vocabulary, I explained it was a small collection of knick-knacks or figurines\/statues used for decoration.  We have some bric-a-brac on our mantle (although some of it&#8217;s too large to be real bric-a-brac, which I think should have a federally mandated maximum height and volume).<\/p>\n<p>Once the concept started to look clear in his eyes, I helpfully added that bric-a-brac differs from <strong>baccarat<\/strong>, a card game, and <strong>Bacharach<\/strong>, an American composer, piano player, and singer.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this wasn&#8217;t for some sort of test now that I&#8217;ve confused him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the six-year-old asked me &#8220;What is bric-a-brac?&#8221; Every eager to help expand his vocabulary, I explained it was a small collection of knick-knacks or figurines\/statues used for decoration. We have some bric-a-brac on our mantle (although some of it&#8217;s too large to be real bric-a-brac, which I think should have a federally mandated maximum [&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-12605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605","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=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12608,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions\/12608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}