{"id":2529,"date":"2008-05-08T05:14:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2008-05-08T05:14:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:14:21","slug":"beach-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"Beach Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased as punch to note that two of my favorite, er, let’s say “niche” publications are still in business.<\/p>\n

I was working at Cray Research fifteen years ago when I encountered The Journal of Irreproducible Results<\/a>, which is\u00a0 to science what The Onion is to news.\u00a0 What I didn’t<\/em> know was that the JIR’s history goes back over half a century.\u00a0 And while their usual fare revolves around parodies of scientific publications (and since I was a technical writer at the time, the format certainly resonated), this bit here<\/a> is near and dear to any blogger that runs a comment section.<\/p>\n

The Wittenburg Door <\/a>and I go back even further; a high school classmate of mine served as its editor back in the late eighties. \u00a0 It’s like…well, here’s another Onion<\/em> reference; it’s The Onion<\/em> of religious writing.\u00a0 The Door has always been a hand-to-mouth project – but when it occurs to me to go read it (every couple of years, lately) it’s always a great read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased as punch to note that two of my favorite, er, let’s say “niche” publications are still in business. I was working at Cray Research fifteen years ago when I encountered The Journal of Irreproducible Results, which is\u00a0 to science what The Onion is to news.\u00a0 What I didn’t know was that the JIR’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}