{"id":524,"date":"2007-11-22T07:57:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T11:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:07:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T19:07:11","slug":"this-makes-me-endlessly-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"This Makes Me Endlessly Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Gary Larson cartoon (with which most of this group will probably be familiar) showing a caveman pointing to the spiky clump at the end of a stegosaur&#8217;s tail and saying, &#8220;Now this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The spiky clump on stegasaur tails is formally referred to by paleontologists as the &#8220;Thagomizer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thagomizer\">Wikipedia entry<\/A>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.palaeos.com\/Vertebrates\/Lists\/Glossary\/GlossaryT.html\">Palaeos entry<\/A>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041214142258\/http:\/www.nmnh.si.edu\/paleo\/dino\/stegdcvr.htm\">etc.<\/A>, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2007\/jul\/stupid-science-word-of-the-month\">etc.<\/A><\/p>\n<p><I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/thelawdogfiles.blogspot.com\/\">LawDog<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Gary Larson cartoon (with which most of this group will probably be familiar) showing a caveman pointing to the spiky clump at the end of a stegosaur&#8217;s tail and saying, &#8220;Now this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.&#8221; The spiky clump on stegasaur tails is formally referred to by [&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\/524"}],"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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}