{"id":218,"date":"2009-09-09T12:21:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-09-09T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:27:23","slug":"090909-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"09\/09\/09 Oh My"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is 09\/09\/09 which is really something.\u00a0 Or so we&#8217;re told.\u00a0 I mean, yeah&#8230; you have to ignore the fact that it&#8217;s not <strong>really <\/strong>the year 09, but that&#8217;s normal.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s really 09\/09\/2009, or 9\/9\/09, or something else less special.\u00a0 This is really and actually a significant moment in history, folks!<\/p>\n<p>I guess this isn&#8217;t going to happen again for over 100 years or maybe even a thousand!<\/p>\n<p>Next year, when 10\/10\/10 rolls around, it&#8217;s totally not going to be nearly as meaningful.\u00a0 Not as much so as 9\/9\/2009&#8230; er, I mean 09\/09\/09.\u00a0 And what about 11\/11\/11?\u00a0 Forget about it, THIS&#8230; THIS moment in history, this 09\/09\/09 isn&#8217;t coming around again EVER IN OUR LIFETIMES FOLKS!!!!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last time in the next 100 years that we&#8217;ll have the a set of repeating, single-digit dates.\u00a0 And since single-digit dates are clearly more special that double-digit dates&#8230; or at least single digits where we arbitrarily tack on leading zeros for days and months, but lop off those annoying preceding millennium and century numbers from the year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s special, damnit&#8230; no really, it is.\u00a0 :-\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other things that are as special and unique as 09\/09\/09:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Snow Flakes<\/strong> &#8211; Yeah, there may be a bazillion of them on your driveway, but under a microscope each and every one is unique.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your Kids<\/strong> &#8211; Afterall, everyone knows you sired the next Joe Namath, Michael Jordan, Albert Einstein, Mozart, and Picasso all in one.\u00a0 No really, we all believe it just as much as you do.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eclipses <\/strong>&#8211; Because there&#8217;ll never be another 57%, lower quadrant, 100 lumines, lunar, not solar, in the Northern hemisphere bordering Indiana AND Ohio during the evening hours of 11:30 to 11:35 pm not obscured by the clouds ever again in our lifetimes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is 09\/09\/09 which is really something.\u00a0 Or so we&#8217;re told.\u00a0 I mean, yeah&#8230; you have to ignore the fact that it&#8217;s not really the year 09, but that&#8217;s normal.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s really 09\/09\/2009, or 9\/9\/09, or something else less special.\u00a0 This is really and actually a significant moment in history, folks! I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,7],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fail","category-ranting-and-raving","tag-media-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knk.codlin.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}