{"id":791,"date":"2007-09-09T23:57:58-04:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T03:57:58+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/09\/09\/things-i-learned-today\/"},"modified":"2007-09-09T23:57:58-04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T03:57:58+00:00","slug":"things-i-learned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/09\/09\/things-i-learned-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned&nbsp;today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>From CBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/testthenation\/\"><cite class=\"title\">Test the Nation<\/cite><\/a>: The correct spelling of <cite class=\"term\">just desserts<\/cite> is actually <cite class=\"term\">just <em>deserts<\/em><\/cite>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/just-deserts.html\" title=\"Gary Martin\"><p>Deserts, in the sense of &#8216;things deserved&#8217; has been used in English since at least the 13th century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/quirks-blog\/2007\/09\/30_years_and_a_day.html\"><cite class=\"title\">Quirks and Quarks<\/cite> blog<\/a>: The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voyager_1\">Voyager 1<\/a> spacecraft was launched over two weeks <em>after<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voyager_2\">Voyager 2<\/a>.  Despite that, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, due to differences in trajectory between the two probes.  (Also of interest: a <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenrecord.org\/\">playable\/viewable version of the <cite class=\"title\">Golden Record<\/cite><\/a> is online.)<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From CBC&#8217;s Test the Nation: The correct spelling of just desserts is actually just deserts: Deserts, in the sense of &#8216;things deserved&#8217; has been used in English since at least the 13th century. From the Quirks and Quarks blog: The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched over two weeks after Voyager 2. Despite that, Voyager 1&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}