{"id":21455,"date":"2019-08-21T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T02:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21455"},"modified":"2019-08-21T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T02:12:23","slug":"greenland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21455","title":{"rendered":"Greenland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking I might write something clever on the aforementioned topic for today&#8217;s post. But the reality is just too ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody I ran into today pretty much started laughing uncontrollably whenever the topic came up. It seems that they all had that initial moment when they just thought &#8220;Wait, is this some kind of out-of-season April fools joke?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By now we are used to seeing crazy stuff whenever we look at the news. But at what point is something simply too inane to even be real?<\/p>\n<p>Every day the threshold of &#8220;too ridiculous to be true&#8221; continues to creep a little higher. But some days that threshold jumps clear out of the atmosphere and floats right to the moon. <\/p>\n<p>This is one of those days. I mean, seriously folks.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, have to stop now. I just can&#8217;t stop giggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking I might write something clever on the aforementioned topic for today&#8217;s post. But the reality is just too ridiculous. Everybody I ran into today pretty much started laughing uncontrollably whenever the topic came up. It seems that they all had that initial moment when they just thought &#8220;Wait, is this some kind &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=21455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greenland&#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\/21455"}],"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=21455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21456,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21455\/revisions\/21456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}