{"id":53,"date":"2006-08-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_web\/the_onion_still_has_it.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"the_onion_still_has_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2006\/08\/01\/the_onion_still_has_it","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Still Has It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/50902\">Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> NEW YORK. Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It would have been a major oversight to ignore this portentous anniversary,&#8221; said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, whose site now boasts over 4,300,000 articles in multiple languages, over one-quarter of which are in English, including 11,000 concerning popular toys of the 1980s alone. &#8220;At 750 years, the U.S. is by far the world&#8217;s oldest surviving democracy, and is certainly deserving of our recognition,&#8221; Wales said. &#8220;According to our database, that&#8217;s 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower, 347 years older than the earliest-known woolly-mammoth fossil, and a full 493 years older than the microwave oven.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> I also thought this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/50648\">Dan Rather\/Michael Stipe<\/a> bit was hilarious, but it only works if you&#8217;re already in on the joke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence: NEW YORK. Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. &#8220;It would have been a major oversight to ignore this portentous anniversary,&#8221; said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, whose site now boasts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}