{"id":1430,"date":"2006-08-26T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2006-08-27T16:40:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T14:40:38","slug":"do-you-know-what-today-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/26\/do-you-know-what-today-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know what today is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 660th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Cr\u00e9cy\">battle of Cr\u00e9cy<\/a>, wherein the French got their collective ass handed over to them by Welsh archery, suffering a humiliating defeat and going on to start the appropriately named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hundred_Years%27_War\">Hundred Years&#8217; War<\/a> (and you thought <em>Iraq<\/em> was dragging on).<\/p>\n<p>Today is also the 26th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tex_Avery\">Tex Avery<\/a>&#8216;s untimely death, to the greatest relief of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daffy_Duck\">talking ducks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Hot_Riding_Hood\">horny wolves<\/a> the world over.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure something else happened on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_26\">that day<\/a>, but I just can&#8217;t remember what.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 660th anniversary of the battle of Cr\u00e9cy, wherein the French got their collective ass handed over to them by Welsh archery, suffering a humiliating defeat and going on to start the appropriately named Hundred Years&#8217; War (and you thought Iraq was dragging on). Today is also the 26th anniversary of Tex Avery&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}