{"id":1470,"date":"2003-06-19T08:08:44","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2003-06-19T08:08:44","modified_gmt":"2003-06-19T13:08:44","slug":"lets-just-call-it-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s just call it &#8216;Dan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dandilion.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/dandilion.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bane of groundskeepers, the dandilion!  Or is it dandylion?  Dandillion?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI know that last one isn&#8217;t right.  Looking at it all typed out it seems like it should be pronounced &#8220;dan-DILL-yun&#8221; as if it were a disturbingly high numerical value, something Carl Sagan would say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m sure it starts out &#8216;d-a-n-d&#8217; so I suppose I could look it up, but it just doesn&#8217;t matter that much&#8230;  It&#8217;s a quick snapshot of a bit of lawn fluff that I noticed while waiting for a ride home last night.  I&#8217;ll just add it to my collection of pictures of flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bane of groundskeepers, the dandilion! Or is it dandylion? Dandillion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}