{"id":1052,"date":"2012-04-23T00:43:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2012-04-23T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T00:43:16","slug":"366-unusual-things-days-109-113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"366 unusual things:  days 109-113"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>18th Apr &#8211; Read some speeches by Desmond Tutu about the concept, <em>ubuntu<\/em>, and couldn&#8217;t remember where I&#8217;d seen that word, until logging off my computer and the word appeared on the screen.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the name of my operating system!\u00a0 <em>Ubuntu <\/em>means &#8220;A person is a person through other persons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>19th Apr &#8211; Read that Chopin composed some of his best pieces in an abandoned Carthusian monastery, once occupied by ascetic monks who denied themselves\u00a0musical instruments.<\/p>\n<p>20th Apr &#8211; This morning the rubbish truck had a female mannequin&#8217;s head sitting on the dashboard, looking out of the windscreen.<\/p>\n<p>21st Apr &#8211; Found out that the word <em>Wikipedia<\/em> is derived from a Hawaiian word, <em>wiki<\/em>, meaning quick.<\/p>\n<p>22nd Apr &#8211; Visited my son and his new wife, and she put a record on!\u00a0 An LP, on an old wooden stereo.\u00a0 Sounded great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18th Apr &#8211; Read some speeches by Desmond Tutu about the concept, ubuntu, and couldn&#8217;t remember where I&#8217;d seen that word, until logging off my computer and the word appeared on the screen.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the name of my operating system!\u00a0 Ubuntu means &#8220;A person is a person through other persons.&#8221; 19th Apr &#8211; Read that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=1052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;366 unusual things:  days 109-113&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,21,22,87,23],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-18","tag-postaday","tag-postaday2012","tag-ubuntu","tag-unusual"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}