{"id":476,"date":"2007-02-01T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2008-06-22T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T16:09:21","slug":"muchos-gatos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Muchas Gatos"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>As I was going to Saint Ives,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I met a man with seven wives,<br \/>\nAnd every wife had seven sacks,<br \/>\nEvery sack had seven cats,<br \/>\nEvery cat had seven kittens,<br \/>\nKittens, cats, sacks, wives,<br \/>\nHow many were going to Saint Ives?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was singing this to myself in bed last night when Margaret popped up with, &#8220;I always resented the answer to that riddle. I mean, just because this guy met the man with seven wives on the way to Saint Ives doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that he met them as they were <em>leaving<\/em> Saint Ives. They could <em>all<\/em> have been going to Saint Ives, and he just managed to catch up with them on the road going in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought about that for a moment, and had to concede that, had both sets of travelers been on foot, it would have been entirely possible\u2014even highly likely\u2014for the guy traveling alone to manage to catch up with the dude who had seven wives, 343 cats and 2,401 kittens in tow.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of stuff you come up with when you are overly satiated\u2014or possibly &#8220;saturated&#8221;\u2014with too much <a href=\"http:\/\/seattle.citysearch.com\/profile\/41662308\/seattle_wa\/ipanema_brazilian_grill.html\">Brazilian meat on a sword<\/a>. Thanks again to Shawn&#8217;s Dad Jeff for the awesome dinner.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was going to Saint Ives, I met a man with seven wives, And every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kittens, Kittens, cats, sacks, wives, How many were going to Saint Ives? I was singing this to myself in bed last night when Margaret popped up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}