{"id":5830,"date":"2010-02-01T07:13:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T02:35:05","slug":"random-thread-interesting-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=5830","title":{"rendered":"Random Thread: “Interesting Times”"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to popular belief, “may you live in interesting times” was an ancient Chinese curse. As far as we know, there’s no documented proof that that’s true. China has long been an interesting place<\/i>, however, and it is February’s destination for our random threads’ yearlong excursion through history.<\/p>\n

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(By the way, the Chinese New Year falls on February 14. Happy Year of the Tiger!)<\/p>\n

(Users’ Manual:<\/b> Obey The Rules<\/a>. Consult The Guide<\/a>. Have fun!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to popular belief, “may you live in interesting times” was an ancient Chinese curse. As far as we know, there’s no documented proof that that’s true. China has long been an interesting place, however, and it is February’s destination for our random threads’ yearlong excursion through history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topstuff","category-random-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10959,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}