{"id":94,"date":"2004-07-16T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T06:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/16\/wonky"},"modified":"2010-08-12T02:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T23:19:24","slug":"wonky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/07\/16\/wonky","title":{"rendered":"Wonky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Word of the Day:<\/strong> <span class=\"wotd\">Wonky<\/span> &#8212; shaky, awry, crazy<br \/>\n(picked up from Black House (the book I&#8217;m reading&#8230;))<\/p>\n<p>This is another excuse for posting a <abbr title=\"Word of the Day\">WOTD<\/abbr>&#8230; Although, I have posted JUST <abbr title=\"Word of the Day\">WOTDs<\/abbr> or <abbr title=\"Quote of the Day\">QOTDs<\/abbr> and nothing else. Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to watch the 2nd part of the gross <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/07\/someone-has-a-good-head-on-their-shoulders\">parasite series<\/a> but luckily (darn I&#8217;m lucky &#8212; no, really) they re-ran it on a digital channel and I just happened to check the programs for the channel in yester&#8217;s paper. And it just happened to be on later that night.<br \/>\nThis time it wasn&#8217;t that gross (although there was one maggot) &#8212; only mosquitoes and diseases they spread. Of course it&#8217;s awful to have malaria, sleeping sickness, etc. in the world, but I&#8217;m talking about the *gross-factor*.<\/p>\n<p>@ 9:58<br \/>\nOk, this is weird. <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_eek.gif\" alt=\":shock:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><br \/>\nThe library man just called me. Yesterday I went to the library to look for a grammar book but it couldn&#8217;t be found anywhere. Now it had emerged. How did he know who I was? Very spooky. xD (I know there&#8217;s not a smiley for that, but sometimes I just can&#8217;t resist you know) I have to make one myself if there&#8217;s a blank one available.<br \/>\nOh yeah: Due date 13.8. (I can&#8217;t access my menu (on the right) from work)<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t desperately need the book but I couldn&#8217;t NOT go get it <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> It might turn out to be useful cause sometimes I do need some grammar info which is difficult to find online.<\/p>\n<p>@ 15:28<br \/>\nUh-oooooh&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"quote\"><p>Finland gained its independence in 1919.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/61\/12\/F0131200.html\">Bartleby<\/a> (or The American Heritage&reg; Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition). That&#8217;d be 1917, thank you very much. Unless the Americans wouldn&#8217;t accept the independency until 1919&#8230;? And actually wouldn&#8217;t that be <i>independencY<\/i> (not independence)? Oh, no, sorry. Both are good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word of the Day: Wonky &#8212; shaky, awry, crazy (picked up from Black House (the book I&#8217;m reading&#8230;)) This is another excuse for posting a WOTD&#8230; Although, I have posted JUST WOTDs or QOTDs and nothing else. Oh well. I forgot to watch the 2nd part of the gross parasite series but luckily (darn I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-people","category-miscellany","category-wotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}