{"id":48,"date":"2006-01-28T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/two-riddles-and-a-mnemonic\/"},"modified":"2006-01-28T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T08:56:00","slug":"two-riddles-and-a-mnemonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/two-riddles-and-a-mnemonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Riddles and a Mnemonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riddle 1:  How is fettucine alfredo better than buttered toast?  It lands facing up.<br \/>\nRiddle 2: How is fettucine alfredo worse than buttered toast? It sprays fettucine around the room on the way down.<\/p>\n<p>Mnemonic:<br \/>\nSince I cannot ever, ever spell emporer and sorceror correctly, and was too dumb to have kings and wizards instead, I have created a sentence to help me:<\/p>\n<p>The <b>emperor<\/b> did<br \/>\n<i>not<\/i> <b>por<\/b>e<br \/>\nover the <b>sorcerer<\/b>&apos;s recipe for<br \/>\nr<b>ooooooo<\/b>ast<br \/>\ng<b>eeeeeee<\/b>se.<\/p>\n<p>(I suppose &#8220;The sorcerer geese roasted the emperor&#8221; would work, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riddle 1: How is fettucine alfredo better than buttered toast? It lands facing up. Riddle 2: How is fettucine alfredo worse than buttered toast? It sprays fettucine around the room on the way down. Mnemonic: Since I cannot ever, ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/two-riddles-and-a-mnemonic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}