{"id":1524,"date":"2007-08-08T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T11:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2007-08-08T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T11:39:15","slug":"a-who-in-the-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1524","title":{"rendered":"A who in the what now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be blogging from work, but I have the <i>New York Times<\/i> as my homepage and when I saw this front-pager I couldn&#8217;t resist: <a title=\"  Flooding Cripples Subway System - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/08\/flooding-cripples-subway-system\/index.html?hp\">a small tornado was sighted this morning in Brooklyn<\/a>.<br \/>\nA tornado.  In New York.<br \/>\nI was first struck by a tiny touch of homesickness, followed rapidly by the quirky idea that this might make a truly bizarre children&#8217;s book, <i>a la<\/i> George Selden&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cricket-Times-Square-George-Selden\/dp\/0440415632\/ref=cm_lmf_tit_22_rsrssi0\/104-7977398-3759962\">The Cricket in Times Square<\/a><\/i>.  &#8220;Timmy the Twister is lost and searching for a way home, leaving wrecked taxicabs and bodegas in his wake&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shouldn&#8217;t be blogging from work, but I have the New York Times as my homepage and when I saw this front-pager I couldn&#8217;t resist: a small tornado was sighted this morning in Brooklyn. A tornado. In New York. I was first struck by a tiny touch of homesickness, followed rapidly by the quirky idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-oA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}