{"id":282,"date":"2001-12-18T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2001-12-18T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=282"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:46:51","slug":"two-quick-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/18\/two-quick-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Two quick things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16668,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005QZ7U\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005QZ7U\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16669,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005BJ2O\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314132303\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005BJ2O\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005BJ2O\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 09:46:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 09:46:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>One silly that popped into my head: why is the plural of box &#8216;boxes&#8217; when the plural of ox is &#8216;oxen&#8217;? You just have to <em>love<\/em> the English language, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Second thing &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005QZ7U\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Moulin Rouge (DVD)\">Moulin Rouge<\/a>! Yay! Picked it up today at lunch&#8230;now I just can&#8217;t wait to get home so I can watch it. Future project: creating my own 2-CD soundtrack by running my DVD&#8217;s audio output into my computer so that I can burn the entire movie to audio CD. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005BJ2O\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Moulin Rouge (CD)\">official soundtrack<\/a> is certainly wonderful, but there were so many other songs that I wanted to be able to listen to&#8230;and now I&#8217;ll have them! Woohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One silly that popped into my head: why is the plural of box &#8216;boxes&#8217; when the plural of ox is &#8216;oxen&#8217;? You just have to love the English language, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2037],"tags":[23,1925],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-moulin-rouge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}