{"id":725,"date":"2010-06-14T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-06-14T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:09:34","slug":"miscellany-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pri.me.uk\/prime_new\/2010\/05\/spoiler-test\/\"><em>Airplane!<\/em> was a remake<\/a> &#8211; who knew?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirainet.com\/english\/196-new-official-kanji-characters\/\">The Japanese have extended their alphabet<\/a>. As if there weren&#8217;t enough characters already.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/op-for.com\/2010\/06\/great_escape_veteran_dies_in_u.html\">The last veteran of The Great Escape has died<\/a>. I remember reading Paul Brickhill&#8217;s book in high school, before I saw the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone talks about using good passwords, but everyone uses &#8216;password&#8217; or their mother&#8217;s maiden name, rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passwordcard.org\/en\">using something harder to guess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/dinoi\/a-comparative-chart-between-two-tablets-dj0\">A comparison of features between the Rosetta Stone and the iPad<\/a>? I have to believe that there&#8217;s a larger market for the iPad, though.<\/p>\n<p>I remember a song from sometime in the 60s with a line in the chorus that went, &#8220;Ride, ride, ride the wild surf!&#8221; Somehow, I don&#8217;t believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1284817\/Crocodiles-surf-waves-cross-oceans.html\">this<\/a> is what they were singing about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airplane! was a remake &#8211; who knew? The Japanese have extended their alphabet. As if there weren&#8217;t enough characters already. The last veteran of The Great Escape has died. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-in-the-news","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}