{"id":566,"date":"2011-10-01T17:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T00:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2011-10-01T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T00:17:16","slug":"a-tribute-to-a-wonderful-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/a-tribute-to-a-wonderful-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to a Wonderful Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been much longer than I would have hoped to say this but I must announce a horrendous event. The wonderful web site that would daily educate and entertain me is gone for what seems like forever. Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn Something New Everyday<\/a> is officially over. The creators decided to end the wonderful site, which would post a cute drawing describing a random factoid every day, this past August. I meant to make this post early September but couldn&#8217;t devise a good factoid for it. Today I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/amazingfactgenerator\" target=\"_blank\">Amazing Fact Generator<\/a> to help me come up with a good one.<\/p>\n<p>For almost a year, I would daily visit the site for about 30 seconds to read the random facts. I would occasionally know the fact already but usually I learned something new. And even if I knew the fact already, I would be graced with the funny cartoons that came with the factoid. This is why today I made my own factoid in the style of LSNED. During the last month of its existence, they had guest artists draw the daily factoid, which many were truly amazing, but I wanted this drawing to celebrate the artist behind LSNED.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, I hope this post teaches more people about the cool British website that educated me for a year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-576\" title=\"Its Elementary\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blog_10_01_11.gif\" alt=\"In 2008, 58% of british teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person\" width=\"580\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blog_10_01_11.gif 580w, https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blog_10_01_11-300x258.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite websites stopped posting last month and I want to celebrate all the smiles it gave me. <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/a-tribute-to-a-wonderful-thing\/\">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":[17],"tags":[202,203],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawing","tag-education","tag-tribute"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}