{"id":133,"date":"2005-11-22T23:58:23","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-09-04T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:31:51","slug":"but-i-thought-of-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"But I Thought Of It, Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/isfullofcrap.com\/oldcrap\/2005\/11\/jellyfish.html\">Laurence Simon<\/a> mocks the idea that Pajamas Media ever so much as considered the name &#147;Jellyfish Media&#148;.  He and his first commenter suggest a dozen more suitable animals:  jackals, hyenas, coyotes, seagulls, vultures, remora, rats, raccoons, dung beetles, lions, catfish, and gophers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m way ahead of Simon on the remora:  three and a half years ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/archives\/000104.html\">compared<\/a> bloggers to fleas, ticks, gadflies, remoras, and those little birds that step into a crocodile\u2019s mouth to pick his teeth for him.  Too bad I lost the comments when I changed to WordPress:  some of them were amusing.  It&#8217;s interesting that the remora is the only one Simon leaves in the singular:  I suspect he couldn&#8217;t decide whether the plural should be English &#8216;remoras&#8217; or Latin &#8216;remorae&#8217; (either is correct) or something else entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Simon mocks the idea that Pajamas Media ever so much as considered the name &#147;Jellyfish Media&#148;. He and his first commenter suggest a dozen more suitable animals: jackals, hyenas, coyotes, seagulls, vultures, remora, rats, raccoons, dung beetles, lions, catfish, and gophers. I&#8217;m way ahead of Simon on the remora: three and a half years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metablogular-musings","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}