{"id":21356,"date":"2019-07-26T20:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T01:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21356"},"modified":"2019-07-26T20:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T01:11:39","slug":"going-from-z-to-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21356","title":{"rendered":"From Z to A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a long flight today from New York to California, I started wondering whether I could write a sentence in which each word begins with a letter from the backwards alphabet. I decided to make a game of it.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that constraint, the rules of the game are simple: Your sentence doesn&#8217;t need to be profound, it just needs to make grammatical sense.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I did too badly. But you might want to see if you can do even better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nZestful young Xerox workers vaulted up the stairs, rushing quickly past old newspaper men, like kids joined in happy giggling, for every day can be amazing!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a long flight today from New York to California, I started wondering whether I could write a sentence in which each word begins with a letter from the backwards alphabet. I decided to make a game of it. Beyond that constraint, the rules of the game are simple: Your sentence doesn&#8217;t need to be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Z to A&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21360,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21356\/revisions\/21360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}