{"id":1585,"date":"2005-11-12T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2005-11-12T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T03:59:00","slug":"douglas-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/douglas-adams","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a HREF=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Adams>The Wikipedia<\/a>, the HitchHiker&#8217;s Guide series sold 15 million copies. This worries me because there are 6.4 billion people on earth &#8211; which, even if each copy has been read 20 times (a generous estimate), only 4% of the inhabitants of earth have been exposed to Douglas Adams. This would seem to be a serious oversight.<\/p>\n<p>[Interestingly enough, that 4% includes my mother]<\/p>\n<p>As a side note, he died of a heart attack while working out. If this isn&#8217;t a good reason not to work out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to The Wikipedia, the HitchHiker&#8217;s Guide series sold 15 million copies. This worries me because there are 6.4 billion people on earth &#8211; which, even if each copy has been read 20 times (a generous estimate), only 4% of the inhabitants of earth have been exposed to Douglas Adams. This would seem to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}