{"id":205,"date":"2009-01-09T04:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-01-09T04:30:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T12:30:38","slug":"lists-of-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/01\/09\/lists-of-threes\/","title":{"rendered":"lists of threes"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father used to, and probably still does, have this list in his bathroom in Surry:<\/p>\n

The Three Grand Essentials of Happiness<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Something to do<\/li>\n
  2. Someone (or something) to love<\/li>\n
  3. Something to look forward to<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I just noticed this next to my grandfather’s computer:<\/p>\n

    Stroke!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    \n
      \n
    1. Smile<\/li>\n
    2. Raise both arms<\/li>\n
    3. Speak a simple sentence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      I find humor in that searching for “lists of threes” on google<\/a>, the first link is a discussion of how in presentations you should do things in three’s because people tend to remember that number better. Yet the page<\/a> lists four points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      My father used to, and probably still does, have this list in his bathroom in Surry: The Three Grand Essentials of Happiness Something to do Someone (or something) to love Something to look forward to I just noticed this next to my grandfather’s computer: Stroke! Smile Raise both arms Speak a simple sentence I find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}