{"id":1892,"date":"2010-12-24T14:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T14:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2010-12-24T14:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T14:37:29","slug":"season-appropriate-greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Season appropriate greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Linux systems are all configured with an ages old program, <tt>fortune<\/tt>, giving me a &#8220;fortune cookie&#8221;, a random greeting or quotation from a database with thousands of entries, every time I log on.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I logged on to one of my Linux machines and I saw this quote from the immortal Sam Clemens, aka. Mark Twain:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If I didn&#8217;t know any better, I&#8217;d be tempted to think that the computer has a twisted sense of atheist humor and chose this greeting after looking at the calendar. Not that Mr. Clemens was wrong!<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, although I am an atheist, I hope I am not twisted, so I just wish a Merry Christmas to all my family and friends, and indeed, all good people.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1892' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Linux systems are all configured with an ages old program, fortune, giving me a &#8220;fortune cookie&#8221;, a random greeting or quotation from a database with thousands of entries, every time I log on. This morning, I logged on to one of my Linux machines and I saw this quote from the immortal Sam Clemens, <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=1892' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-culture","category-personal","category-11-id","category-40-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}