{"id":6362,"date":"2012-03-11T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2012-03-11T09:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T14:22:32","slug":"on-douglas-adams-60th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"On Douglas Adam&#8217;s 60th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Adams would have been 60 years old today.<\/p>\n<p>Things to do in honor of his memory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.<br \/>\nFind that moldering copy of <i>The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey<\/i> that&#8217;s gathering dust in your attic.<br \/>\nRecite Vogon poetry.<br \/>\nWalk around with a towel.<br \/>\nBlow a deadline just so you can hear the fluttering wings of deadline fairies as they fly by.<br \/>\nGet a sofa stuck in a mathematically impossible position in a stairwell.<br \/>\nRead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-17285332\">this tribute<\/a> by Terry Jones.<\/p>\n<p>In short, don&#8217;t panic today. Douglas wouldn&#8217;t have wanted you to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Adams would have been 60 years old today. Things to do in honor of his memory&#8230; Have a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. Find that moldering copy of The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey that&#8217;s gathering dust in your attic. Recite Vogon poetry. Walk around with a towel. Blow a deadline just so you can<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6362\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Douglas Adam&#8217;s 60th Birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-douglas-adams","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","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=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}