{"id":345,"date":"2013-03-12T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:40:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:40:57","slug":"douglas-adams-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/douglas-adams-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Adams&#8217; Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Douglas Adams&#8217; birthday and I totally missed it. In my defense, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll mind.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I thought I&#8217;d make up for missing his birthday by posting just a couple of Douglas Adams related things I came across yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/douglas-adams-61st-birthday\">Douglas featured on his very own Google Doodle yesterday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Next, an absolutely brilliant exchange between Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou know,\u201d said Arthur, \u201cit\u2019s at times like this, when I\u2019m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I\u2019d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy, what did she tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, I didn\u2019t listen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next, an interview Douglas did in 1985 with Letterman.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SF2fZ2iOXhk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Douglas Adams&#8217; birthday and I totally missed it. In my defense, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll mind. Anyway, I thought I&#8217;d make up for missing his birthday by posting just a couple of Douglas Adams related things I came across yesterday. First, Douglas featured on his very own Google Doodle yesterday. Next, an absolutely brilliant exchange between Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect from The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy: \u201cYou know,\u201d said Arthur, \u201cit\u2019s at times like this, when&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/douglas-adams-birthday\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Blog post: Douglas Adams' Birthday http:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-5z","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[51,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-5z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}