{"id":560,"date":"2006-08-18T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2006-08-18T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T16:12:00","slug":"the-8-ball-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"The 8 Ball Knows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend suggested I consult the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indra.com\/cgi-bin\/magic-8-ball\">Magic 8-Ball<\/a> to help decide on a name.<\/p>\n<p>So, let it be known, my daughter will be named Very Doubtful Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>Which is moderately better than Don&#8217;t Count On It Lucas, but not as good as Yes! Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, Yes! is not a bad name<sup>1<\/sup>.  Talk about a positive outlook.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><sup>1<\/sup> When I was growing up, the next town over changed it&#8217;s name to Hamilton!, Ohio (as <lj user=jennapple> can attest).  In answer, we liked to call our town Fairfield?, Ohio.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend suggested I consult the Magic 8-Ball to help decide on a name. So, let it be known, my daughter will be named Very Doubtful Lucas. Which is moderately better than Don&#8217;t Count On It Lucas, but not as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=560\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}