{"id":523,"date":"2007-04-09T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T18:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2008-06-21T23:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T06:02:03","slug":"another-one-for-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Another One For the Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Round 8:00 on Friday evening, someone in a cluster of IPs belonging to the Nashville office of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcahealthcare.com\/\">Columbia HCA<\/a> made it to my blog via the following <a href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/\">MSN Live<\/a> search:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>rent jet skis at strom thurmond<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As is so often the case with Refer Madness posts, I was initially unable to even parse the language of&#8211;or the motivation behind&#8211;the request. Turns out the late Senator has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lake_Strom_Thurmond\">body of water in Georgia <\/a>named after him, but at first my mind was reeling. Does Strom Thurmond&#8217;s estate rent Jet Skis? Is Strom Thurmond <em>himself<\/em> actually available for rental as a recreational watercraft?<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, he was pretty lightweight even in life, doubtless more so now. Bend him into the proper shape, give him a couple of coats of marine lacquer and shove a high-powered impeller up his ass, he might just be seaworthy. One longs to try, anyway; makes me smile just thinking about it.  \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Round 8:00 on Friday evening, someone in a cluster of IPs belonging to the Nashville office of Columbia HCA made it to my blog via the following MSN Live search: rent jet skis at strom thurmond As is so often the case with Refer Madness posts, I was initially unable to even parse the language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-refer-madness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}