{"id":98,"date":"2007-01-01T12:21:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/merry-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-01-01T12:28:45","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T20:28:45","slug":"merry-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/whatever\/merry-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can it not be merry? We are so much smarter than we were a year ago. Just consider the BBC&#8217;s list of <a title=\"new knowledge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/magazinemonitor\/index.html#a007948\">100 things we now know that we didn&#8217;t know last year<\/a>. (Check out their site for more info.)<\/p>\n<p>Some of the new knowledge includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Urban birds have developed a short, fast &#8220;rap style&#8221; of singing, different from their rural counterparts.<\/li>\n<li>The lion costume in the film <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em> was made from real lions.<\/li>\n<li>The Pope has been known to wear red Prada shoes.<\/li>\n<li>Barbie&#8217;s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.<\/li>\n<li>A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.<\/li>\n<li>Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than 20% and can alleviate depression by up to 25%.<\/li>\n<li>In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can it not be merry? We are so much smarter than we were a year ago. Just consider the BBC&#8217;s list of 100 things we now know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}