{"id":1159,"date":"2023-10-31T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/halloween-1\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:19:20","slug":"halloween-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/halloween-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween: 15th Typepad Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Typepad incarnation of MavPhil<\/em> is now 15 years old. It has racked up 6,637,776 page views, which averages out to 1211 page views per day.  It boasts 11,838  posts and 14,342  comments. And this despite shadow banning.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank you for your patronage. Double your money back if not completely satisfied.<\/span><\/p>\n

"If you like to think, you'll like my blog; if you don't like to think, you need my blog."<\/span><\/p>\n

I Ain't Superstitious<\/a>, leastways no more than Howlin' Wolf, but two<\/em> twin black tuxedo cats just crossed my path.  All dressed up with nowhere to go.  Nine lives and dressed to the nines.  Stevie Ray Vaughan, Superstition<\/a>.  Guitar solo starts at 3:03.  And of course you've heard the story<\/a> about Niels Bohr and the horseshoe over the door:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A friend was visiting in the home of Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr, the famous atom scientist.<\/span><\/p>\n

As they were talking, the friend kept glancing at a horseshoe hanging over the door. Finally, unable to contain his curiosity any longer, he demanded:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNiels, it can\u2019t possibly be that you, a brilliant scientist, believe that foolish horseshoe superstition! ? !\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course not,\u201d replied the scientist. \u201cBut I understand it\u2019s lucky whether you believe in it or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Purr-honian Cat:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Pyrrhonian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Typepad incarnation of MavPhil is now 15 years old. It has racked up 6,637,776 page views, which averages out to 1211 page views per day.  It boasts 11,838  posts and 14,342  comments. And this despite shadow banning. I thank you for your patronage. Double your money back if not completely satisfied. "If you like … Continue reading “Halloween: 15th Typepad Anniversary”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,109,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-blogging","category-cats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}