{"id":908,"date":"2010-04-05T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:00:00","slug":"tidbits-from-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits from the &#8216;Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second place (only <i>second?!?<\/i> What were they <i>thinking???<\/i>) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ydr.com\/ci_14807602\">2010 New York Daily Record\/Sunday News Peeps Diorama Contest<\/a> had me absolutely rolling on the floor. Behold &#8220;The Peeplight Saga: Race through Volterra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/pictures\/peepvolterra_400.jpg\" height=\"324\" width=\"400\" alt=\"peeps\"><\/p>\n<p>And there is something to artists having an affinity with more than one form of art. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Keith Richards, quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/bookpatrol\/archives\/200627.asp?from=blog_last3\">The Book Side of Keith Richards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rocker Keith Richards, an idol of Johnny Depp&#8217;s who appeared in <i>Pirates of the Caribbean: At World&#8217;s End<\/i> as Jack Sparrow&#8217;s daddy, Captain Teague, reveals in his forthcoming autobiography, <i>Life,<\/i> that he&#8217;s a monster bibliomaniac with enormous personal libraries. He must have loved playing this scene in POTC3!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/pictures\/pirate code.jpg\" height=\"278\" width=\"400\" alt=\"codex\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second place (only second?!? What were they thinking???) in the 2010 New York Daily Record\/Sunday News Peeps Diorama Contest had me absolutely rolling on the floor. Behold &#8220;The Peeplight Saga: Race through Volterra.&#8221; And there is something to artists having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=908\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}