{"id":84,"date":"2006-10-02T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2006-10-02T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T18:24:30","slug":"the-terrifying-yet-wonderous-world-in-which-we-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Terrifying (yet Wonderous) World in which We Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I debug, which I&#8217;m doing now, I frequently hum songs to myself about puzzles or looking for answers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you know \u00e2\u20ac\u201c songs about debugging.  R. E. M.&#8217;s <cite>Strange<\/cite> is in heavy rotation for this and I&#8217;m sure you can guess others.  Today&#8217;s was the refrain &#8220;I know there&#8217;s something going on&#8230;&#8221; repeated with a little baseline I won&#8217;t try to reproduce for you.  Unfortunately, I began to think &#8220;who did that song?&#8221; and promptly distracted myself.  I&#8217;m pretty good at &#8220;name that 80&#8217;s song&#8221; and really perturbed myself at not being able to think of this.<br \/>\nGoogle found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afn.org\/~afn30091\/songs\/f\/frida-i.htm\">the lyrics<\/a> for me on the second hit. I am terrified and delighted.  I console myself by realizing that I was able to get an attribute-based fix on it: &#8220;it was that girl from ABBA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now back to something that&#8217;s going on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I debug, which I&#8217;m doing now, I frequently hum songs to myself about puzzles or looking for answers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you know \u00e2\u20ac\u201c songs about debugging. R. E. M.&#8217;s Strange is in heavy rotation for this and I&#8217;m sure you can guess others. Today&#8217;s was the refrain &#8220;I know there&#8217;s something going on&#8230;&#8221; repeated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}