{"id":17,"date":"2003-07-17T21:12:39","date_gmt":"2003-07-17T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christopherowen.id.au\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2003-07-17T21:12:39","modified_gmt":"2003-07-17T11:12:39","slug":"105844035911326468","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/105844035911326468\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fresh New Minty Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"

How pleased was I when, upon bothering to actually peruse the available blogger templates, I discovered this gem, very fortuitously and aptly monikered “Jelly Fish”. Apart from looking better than the old template, which I admittedly chose in a blinding flash of indifference upon the genesis of this blog, it is also marked up — semantically<\/strong> — in very swanky transitional XHTML<\/acronym> and styled using sensual CSS<\/acronym>. Now as some of you may already be privy to, there is nothing that gets me more aroused than a slab of sexy, well formed XHTML; you can probably imagine the raptures I was in, especially considering that I did not have to lift a fat finger to do any of it. On the flip side though, it would seem that the font does not provide an – (unless the designer considered a small rectangular black glyph to be a suitable substitute) and the italics look a bit too, well, italic. I have been informed on many occasions that beggars can’t be choosers and who am I to argue? I may get around to adjusting it to remove these quibbles.In other news, I am currently sampling the polyphonic delights of the new Powderfinger<\/a> album: Vulture Street, which is shaping up to be very tasty indeed. I am fairly certain after one listening that it exceeds the deeds archived on that other quite nice album: Odyssey Number 5. It is needless to say that I am thoroughly delighted with it.<\/p>\n

Hey — just because there is no need will rarely prevent me from doing something — but you knew that already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How pleased was I when, upon bothering to actually peruse the available blogger templates, I discovered this gem, very fortuitously and aptly monikered “Jelly Fish”. Apart from looking better than the old template, which I admittedly chose in a blinding flash of indifference upon the genesis of this blog, it is also marked up — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}