{"id":15,"date":"2005-06-08T07:26:54","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T12:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=15"},"modified":"2005-06-08T07:26:54","modified_gmt":"2005-06-08T12:26:54","slug":"oh-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Oh Well . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent all last Thursday afternoon with a nagging feeling that I was forgetting to do something, and only realized that I had missed the National Spelling Bee an hour or two after it ended. I guess the habit of not watching ESPN is hard to break &#151; like the habit of not posting here. The details of this year&#146;s contest are on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spellingbee.com\/05bee\/resultsindex.shtml\">this page<\/a> (in PDF form), which lists every word by round and how it was spelled or misspelled. Since every contestant except winner Anurag Kashyap misspelled one word, I wonder whether recording the results for posterity is entirely wise. Might it not encourage obsessive-compulsive types to pore over their failures repeatedly? And wouldn&#146;t a disproportionate number of National Spelling Bee finalists have  obsessive-compulsive tendencies, or is that just a stereotype? Time to watch <em>Spellbound<\/em> (not the Hitchcock one) for clues.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many found the last word in the 16th round (out of 19) particularly pertinent. As if to taunt the ignorant, the results page doesn&#146;t provide any definitions, but &#145;onychophagy&#146; must mean &#147;eating one&#146;s fingernails&#148;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent all last Thursday afternoon with a nagging feeling that I was forgetting to do something, and only realized that I had missed the National Spelling Bee an hour or two after it ended. I guess the habit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=15\">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":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}