{"id":393,"date":"2006-09-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=393"},"modified":"2009-12-31T17:41:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:41:05","slug":"he-died-at-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/09\/he-died-at-what.html","title":{"rendered":"He died at WHAT!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22148797@N00\/227385784\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/experiment01a.jpg\" title=\"Died at experiment aged 3 years and 4 months.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kilmartin in Argyll is famous for its bronze age cairns, stone circles and 10th century crosses in Kilmartin churchyard.  But this gravestone is what really got me wondering.  Is &#8220;experiment&#8221; used here as a synonym for misadventure?  Is it an obsolete piece of medical terminology?  Was Jimmy Stewart an infant scientific prodigy with a fatal reckless streak?  I can&#8217;t help thinking the real explanation is that Monty Python&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Meaning of Life<\/span> is based even more closely on real life than I thought. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilmartin in Argyll is famous for its bronze age cairns, stone circles and 10th century crosses in Kilmartin churchyard. But this gravestone is what really got me wondering. Is &#8220;experiment&#8221; used here as a synonym for misadventure? Is it an obsolete piece of medical terminology? Was Jimmy Stewart an infant scientific prodigy with a fatal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}