{"id":330,"date":"2005-02-28T01:54:01","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T06:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=330"},"modified":"2005-02-28T01:54:01","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T06:54:01","slug":"on-random-meanings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"On Random Meanings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> comes pre-installed with a plug-in to insert a random line from Louis Armstrong&#8217;s song &#8220;Hello, Dolly&#8221; into the header of the admin screens I see when working on the website.  I never activated the plug-in until today because I never saw the point&#8211;the song has no intrinsic meaning to me, and why clutter up my screen?<\/p>\n<p>But curiosity got the best of me.  I want to understand how .php code works.  I stopped by Barnes &#038; Noble this afternoon, bought a book on .php coding, and took a look at some of the plug-ins I&#8217;ve installed to see if I can understand what the code does and how it works.<\/p>\n<p>I decided that if &#8220;Hello, Dolly&#8221; means absolutely squat to me, why not substitute in a song lyric that does?<\/p>\n<p>A quick Google search, a substitution into the plug-in&#8217;s code, and now a lyric from The Beatles&#8217; &#8220;Revolution&#8221; graces the top of my admin screens.<\/p>\n<p>The first lyric to appear randomly?  &#8220;Well you know, you better free your mind instead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taken on its own, very profound, that.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t understand quite how the .php code for the plug-in works, but I have a better idea now than I did, say, twelve hours ago.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, I have a feeling John Lennon is trying to tell me something.<\/p>\n<p>A fortune cookie I had today <i>did<\/i> tell me something.  &#8220;You will always possess a charm and a sense of humor that attracts others,&#8221; it read.  When it&#8217;s right it&#8217;s right.  Chinese oracles know of whence they speak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress comes pre-installed with a plug-in to insert a random line from Louis Armstrong&#8217;s song &#8220;Hello, Dolly&#8221; into the header of the admin screens I see when working on the website. I never activated the plug-in until today because I never saw the point&#8211;the song has no intrinsic meaning to me, and why clutter up<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=330\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Random Meanings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097,4095],"tags":[77,932,98,4096],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","category-wordpress","tag-john-lennon","tag-revolution","tag-the-beatles","tag-wordpress","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}