{"id":135,"date":"2002-12-16T00:08:03-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-16T08:08:03+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=135"},"modified":"2002-12-16T00:08:03-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-16T08:08:03+00:00","slug":"the-m-dot-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/12\/16\/the-m-dot-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"The M-Dot&nbsp;Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>What is M-Dot?  A producer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-dot.com\/\">hot formed titanium parts and aircraft tailpipes<\/a>?  The state of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdot.state.mi.us\/\">Michigan&#8217;s Department of Transportation<\/a>?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.mn.us\/\">Minnesota&#8217;s<\/a>?  An <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalart.org\/artists\/artists.php?ID=2438\">artist who uses Adobe Illustrator<\/a>?  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironmanlive.com\/\">international symbol for the Ironman Triathlon<\/a> (which can be worn as a badge of honor only by those who complete one of these races)?<\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">None of the above (although the last is close).<\/span> <em>Ahem.  The last one is exactly it.  Silly me.<\/em>  <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2002\/12\/11\/selfevident.html#comments\">Croptop<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/croptop.blogspot.com\/\">started a weblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>(Yes, I&#8217;m aware that this is a lot longer announcement than the one for <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2002\/10\/03\/its_contagious.html\">Mike&#8217;s<\/a>, but he&#8217;s also posted two-thirds as many entries as Mike in only four days.)<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is M-Dot? A producer of hot formed titanium parts and aircraft tailpipes? The state of Michigan&#8217;s Department of Transportation? Minnesota&#8217;s? An artist who uses Adobe Illustrator? The international symbol for the Ironman Triathlon (which can be worn as a badge of honor only by those who complete one of these races)? None of the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}