{"id":98,"date":"2006-08-24T11:48:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2006\/08\/24\/my-mother-actually-wasnt-very-educated-when-she-came-up-with-this-unh\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T16:48:26","slug":"my-mother-actually-wasnt-very-educated-when-she-came-up-with-this-unh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2006\/08\/24\/my-mother-actually-wasnt-very-educated-when-she-came-up-with-this-unh\/","title":{"rendered":"My mother actually WASN&#8217;T very educated when she came up with this.  UNH."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the nine-planet mnemonics you learned were dumb, because mnemonics are dumb, period.  Purge them from your brain.  Good!<\/p>\n<p>My mother taught me the planets in kindergarten or something, using a song she and her friend made up on the playground when <i>they<\/i> were in elementary school.  It goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mercury, Venus, Earth<\/p>\n<p><i>dah-dah nanananah<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Mars, Jupiter, Saturn<\/p>\n<p><i>dah-dah nanananah<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Uranus, Neptune and&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Plu-to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I have never forgotten them since.  The best part is that now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5703014\" title=\"WHO THE HELL LET THEM NAME IT XENA\">the list has been shortened<\/a>, it&#8217;s more easily converted than your elevated mastodon who just served you divorce papers or whatever.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Uranus, Neptune and&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the nine-planet mnemonics you learned were dumb, because mnemonics are dumb, period. Purge them from your brain. Good! My mother taught me the planets in kindergarten or something, using a song she and her friend made up on the playground when they were in elementary school. It goes like this: &#8220;Mercury, Venus, Earth dah-dah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-joan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}