{"id":5091,"date":"2010-05-07T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2010-05-07T19:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T00:45:06","slug":"on-friday-bric-a-brac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5091","title":{"rendered":"On Friday Bric-a-Brac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while crossing the street from the subway station to the light rail station, I found myself playing an inadvertant game of chicken with a low-flying pigeon.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the pigeon blinked first.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing weirder than looking an oncoming pigeon in the eye as it&#8217;s coming right for you.<\/p>\n<p>And because it needs to be seen, the <i>Star Wars<\/i> Original Trilogy, told in LEGO, in two minutes:<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z0z_TU4Gw5o&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z0z_TU4Gw5o&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I admit it, I&#8217;m jealous of his collection.  Who wouldn&#8217;t be? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t know what to make of the British electoral system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while crossing the street from the subway station to the light rail station, I found myself playing an inadvertant game of chicken with a low-flying pigeon. Fortunately, the pigeon blinked first. There&#8217;s nothing weirder than looking an oncoming pigeon in the eye as it&#8217;s coming right for you. And because it needs to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5091\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Friday Bric-a-Brac&#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":[52],"tags":[4103,722,4114],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-lego","tag-lego-star-wars","tag-star-wars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","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=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}