{"id":11699,"date":"2009-06-16T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11699"},"modified":"2009-06-16T11:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T16:31:19","slug":"useless-trivia-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11699","title":{"rendered":"Useless Trivia for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Mastadons, you know, the extinct big elephant looking thing.\u00a0 Anyway, Mastadon in Greek means &#8220;Nipple Teeth.&#8221;\u00a0 No, I have no idea why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mastodon_color1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11704 alignnone\" title=\"mastodon_color1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mastodon_color1-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"mastodon_color1\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mastodon_color1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mastodon_color1.jpg 657w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) The common dendelion is called <em>pissenlit<\/em> in French. The name means &#8220;Piss the Bed.&#8221; No, I have no idea why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/danelion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11705 alignnone\" title=\"danelion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/danelion-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"danelion\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/danelion-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/danelion.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) TSO will be incommunicado from Saturday morning through the following Saturday at his annual <del datetime=\"2009-06-16T15:19:02+00:00\">&#8220;Beat the Youths&#8221;<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vaboysstate.org\/\">volunteer get-a-way<\/a>. While I am away, try not to burn the place to the ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boys State is a comprehensive one week course in state and local government . Virginia American Legion Boys State is a &#8220;leadership action program&#8221; where qualified male high school rising seniors take part in a practical government course. It is designed to develop a working knowledge of the structure of government and to impress upon the citizen the fact that our government is just what we make it. Along the way they will have the opportunity to learn the political process. Each level of government will be run by those delegates who are elected to serve. Instruction will be presented on the law and court system, parliamentary procedure and Virginia political history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Mastadons, you know, the extinct big elephant looking thing.\u00a0 Anyway, Mastadon in Greek means &#8220;Nipple &hellip; <a title=\"Useless Trivia for the Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11699\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Useless Trivia for the Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}