{"id":1032,"date":"2010-07-11T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2010-07-22T01:27:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T00:27:02","slug":"july-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/11\/july-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"July Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grasshoppers can bite<strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The GM food scare may well have started from a discredited scientific study that poisoned mice with potatoes. All the study really showed was that potatoes contain poisons (which incidently are contained on the outisde 6mm of a potato).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People have the ability to take a football predicting octopus seriously. Incidently a German win today would at last show that octopodes cannot predict football results! (Something surely we should all know!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Unfortunately for my desire for rational explanations Spain won and the octopus was correct. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Even worse news is that it predicted the final but if it hadn&#8217;t a parakeet would have been celebrated for its psychic powers!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday it is the 31st annual &#8220;Moon Amtrak&#8221; day, when people gather by the side of a railway in Orange County and bare their backsides at passing trains. This annual event occurs on the second Saturday in July every year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have 8 railings and remove the 2nd 3rd 6th and 8th railings, running a stick down the 1st 4th 5th and 7th at an even speed will give you a tango beat. (incidently if you have 30 railings leave 1 4 6 8 9 12 14 16 17 18 19 20 26 27 28 29 30 and you will get the rhythm for the Simpsons theme)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Monty Hall dilemma actually dates to the 30s, and not to Monty Hall himself. Monty Hall never gave contestants the opportunity to swap doors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annabel Chong was from Singapore&#8230; something they don&#8217;t seem to advertise much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday Grasshoppers can bite. Tuesday The GM food scare may well have started from a discredited scientific study that poisoned mice with potatoes. All the study really showed was that potatoes contain poisons (which incidently are contained on the outisde 6mm of a potato). Wednesday People have the ability to take a football predicting octopus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,15,19,10,124,7],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-biology","tag-geography","tag-medical","tag-places","tag-relationships","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}