{"id":2615,"date":"2004-06-22T04:36:58","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T18:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/22\/thats-a-big-basement-and-a-lot-of-dust\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T23:02:56","slug":"thats-a-big-basement-and-a-lot-of-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/06\/22\/thats-a-big-basement-and-a-lot-of-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s a big basement, and a lot of dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  The Browning pistol that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sparked the crisis leading to World War I has been discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-pistol22.html\" title=\"Pistol found that killed 8.5 million people\">gathering dust in a Jesuit community house in Austria<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting enough in itself, but what really caught my eye was the headline that FARK used <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/comments.pl?IDLink=1006316\" title=\"Pistol -- responsible for deaths of 8.5 million -- found gathering dust in Jesuit community house in Austria\">when they linked to this story<\/a>. It&#8217;s apparently been edited to add some much needed clarification, but the version that showed up in my news aggregator this morning was as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Pistol responsible for deaths of 8.5 million people found gathering dust in Jesuit community house in Austria\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually had to read this three times before I could parse the sentence the way it was actually intended. I kept reading it and picturing a house with a basement big enough to hold the 8.5 million dusty corpses that had just been discovered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Lessons In Love&#8221; by Lords of Acid from the album <em>Lust<\/em> (1991, 4:21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually had to read this three times before I could parse the sentence the way it was actually intended. I kept reading it and picturing a house with a basement big enough to hold the 8.5 million dusty corpses that had just been discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}