{"id":1958,"date":"2005-02-16T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-16T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2018-07-18T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:54:56","slug":"1958","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/16\/1958\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an AP article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2005\/02\/16\/international\/i060056S00.DTL\" target=\"_new\">WWF Warns on Man-Made Arctic Toxins<\/a>&#8221; that apparently seeks to outlaw everything Gaia doesn&#8217;t like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only a tiny fraction of the estimated 30,000 to 70,000 chemicals made worldwide are banned, even though many more may be harmful, the report said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In related trivia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Of the hundreds of thousands of plants grown in American homes, only a tiny fraction is pot, but many more would stink up your house if you dried them and lit them on fire.\n<li>Of the millions of cars on American roads, only a tiny percentage will be in accidents, although any of them can be lethal if accelerated to their top speeds and run into unyielding objects.\n<li>Of the gazillions of gallons of water in the world, only a small amount causes death by inhalation, but all of it is potentially lethal unless you&#8217;re Kevin Costner&#8217;s character in <i>Waterworld<\/i>.\n<li>Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.<\/ul>\n<p>Subtitle this piece <i>Subsets for Effect<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an AP article entitled &#8220;WWF Warns on Man-Made Arctic Toxins&#8221; that apparently seeks to outlaw everything Gaia doesn&#8217;t like: Only a tiny fraction of the estimated 30,000 to 70,000 chemicals made worldwide are banned, even though many more may be harmful, the report said. In related trivia: Of the hundreds of thousands of plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20565,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/20565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}