{"id":435,"date":"2015-05-01T19:57:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T23:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=435"},"modified":"2015-05-01T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T23:57:29","slug":"spheroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Spheroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to buy an onion yesterday.  An overpriced Kings onion because Kings is two blocks away and I needed it before the <em>sinigang<\/em> boiled over.  And on the way home, I found myself remembering a passage from <em>Humans<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Humans<\/em> got rather far afield from its satire of the earnest <em>Ghomes<\/em> as it went off on a tangent discussing baseball and softball, including a loving paragraph devoted to how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a baseball is designed, irresistably, to be thrown.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  It has just the right size to hold comfortably, though not so comfortably that you wouldn&#8217;t mind releasing it, light enough to rest easily until you choose a target, but enough heft to promise it will arrive where you throw it.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, a medium yellow onion is just like a baseball in that respect.  A curious coincidence.  A baseball might be designed to be thrown, but an onion is designed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwell, bred\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto look appetizing.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.  Find a medium yellow onion, a good round one.  Now carry it outside.  Yes, outside.  Ideally a warm, spring day.  Opening season.  Tell me that onion isn&#8217;t begging to be thrown humbabyhumbabyhumbaby<em>RIGHT<\/em> over the plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to buy an onion yesterday. An overpriced Kings onion because Kings is two blocks away and I needed it before the sinigang boiled over. And on the way home, I found myself remembering a passage from Humans. Humans got rather far afield from its satire of the earnest Ghomes as it went off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}