{"id":190,"date":"2005-04-13T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-11-30T22:37:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T04:37:39","slug":"troy-mclure-and-the-quest-for-science-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"troy mclure and the quest for science fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctil the Red Rocks adventure, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on a hunt for new music to listen to on the plane.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in my little grey cubicle at work, and the man in one of the adjacent cubicles is snoring.  This is the level of excitement at work.  Earlier I heard a man saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, not party fun.  Science fun!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (and going from sounding slightly disparaging, to alarmingly excited).<\/p>\n<p>I present you with a conversation (slightly edited for ease of reading).<\/p>\n<p><b>me says:<\/b><br \/>\nAmericans do dodgy abseiling. From slings on trees.<br \/>\n<em>Me:<\/em> &#8220;Where&#8217;s the anchor?&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Them:<\/em> &#8220;This dodgy handful of slings around this tree&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Me:<\/em> &#8220;Excellent&#8221;<br \/>\n<b>sair says:<\/b><br \/>\nHeheeh sounds familiar, like in Thailand.<br \/>\n<em>Me:<\/em> &#8220;Dan, where is the anchor?&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Dan:<\/em> &#8220;Oh it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up there on that tufa&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Me:<\/em> &#8220;Ok climbing&#8221;<br \/>\n(Me having reached the top)<br \/>\n<em>Me:<\/em> &#8220;This tufa is hollow&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Dan:<\/em> &#8220;Yeah you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be right just work quickly&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Me:<\/em> &#8220;Dan my anchor is attached to a hollow tufa&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Dan:<\/em> &#8220;Yeah you look totally hardcore&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctil the Red Rocks adventure, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on a hunt for new music to listen to on the plane. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in my little grey cubicle at work, and the man in one of the adjacent cubicles is snoring. This is the level of excitement at work. Earlier I heard a man saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[469,467,464,468,466,422,256,465],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing","category-general","tag-anchors","tag-conversation","tag-cubicle","tag-hardcore","tag-quotes","tag-red-rocks","tag-usa","tag-work"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"megan","author_link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?author=1"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=13\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">climbing<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">climbing<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">general<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">anchors<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">conversation<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">cubicle<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">hardcore<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">quotes<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">red rocks<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?cat=1\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">work<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">anchors<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">conversation<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">cubicle<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">hardcore<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">quotes<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">red rocks<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">usa<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">work<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"2","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 21 years ago","modified":"Updated 17 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 13.4.2005","modified":"Updated on 30.11.2008"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 13.4.2005 1:02 pm","modified":"Updated on 30.11.2008 10:37 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}