{"id":81,"date":"2005-02-20T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T05:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-02-21T00:00:29","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T06:00:29","slug":"whatcha-readin-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2005\/02\/20\/whatcha-readin-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;whatcha readin&#8217;?&#8221; meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/playingschool.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/whatcha-readin-meme.html\" target=\"wrm\">Profgrrrrl<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/we_are_all_lemmings_we_bloggers\/\" target=\"squid\">Pharyngula<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. Grab the nearest book.<br \/>\n2. Open the book to page 123.<br \/>\n3. Find the fifth sentence.<br \/>\n4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.<br \/>\n5. Don&#8217;t search around and look for the &#8220;coolest&#8221;\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd book you can find. Do what&#8217;s actually next to you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, this morning I would have had Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <i>Feet of Clay<\/i> Discworld book at hand, but since I finished it, I&#8217;m left with the nearest book on the reference shelf, Grier and Burk&#8217;s <i>Biology of Animal Behavior<\/i>. P. 123 is the start of Chapter 5, &#8220;The Evolution of Behavior: An Introduction&#8221;, and the fifth sentence is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOther, more advanced evolutionary topics, such as evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs, Chapter 14), are presented in other chapters, where appropriate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other books that are next to it on the reference shelf: Zar&#8217;s <i>Biostatistics<\/i> and the Chemical Rubber Company&#8217;s <i>Standard Math Tables<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sorry to burst coturnix&#8217;s prediction on Pharyngula concerning the single quote that would be produced by Christian bloggers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Profgrrrrl via Pharyngula: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Wesley R. Elsberry","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0397e612e6e0615428fba05fe25422d5920a74e203aa8a035183297dcb4ffe5e?s=96&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":false,"magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"From Profgrrrrl via Pharyngula: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["General"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":12,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Wesley R. Elsberry","author_link":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/author\/austringer\/"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0397e612e6e0615428fba05fe25422d5920a74e203aa8a035183297dcb4ffe5e?s=96&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">General<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}