{"id":139,"date":"2007-01-03T10:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:09:54","slug":"okay-this-doesnt-have-anything-to-do-with-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Okay, This Doesn&#8217;t Have Anything to Do with Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but it&#8217;s one of the most wonderful openings for a news article I&#8217;ve ever encountered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ANKARA, Turkey &#8211; Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s comedy gold, baby.  (The rest of the article is <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20061231\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/turkey_animal_sacrifice\">here<\/A>, if you want to read it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but it&#8217;s one of the most wonderful openings for a news article I&#8217;ve ever encountered. ANKARA, Turkey &#8211; Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals. That&#8217;s comedy gold, baby. (The rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}