{"id":7216,"date":"2012-05-04T22:57:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T05:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2012-05-04T23:05:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T06:05:46","slug":"a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A good day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>View 722 Friday, May 04, 2012<\/p>\n<p>New Chinese Motto: \u201cHave One Child. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve Barnes is in town, and Niven, Barnes, and I went up the hill, 4 miles round trip and 750 foot elevation. Sable has hunted gophers on that hill for all of her eight years, and today she caught on. A good day, but I\u2019m exhausted. And the Lakers blew game three in Denver. <\/p>\n<p>Good night\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image00217.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"clip_image002\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image002_thumb2.gif\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To remind you of what Scientific American once was and sometimes can be again <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/thoughtful-animal\/2012\/04\/30\/dogs-but-not-wolves-use-humans-as-tools\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/thoughtful-animal\/2012\/04\/30\/dogs-but-not-wolves-use-humans-as-tools\/\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/thoughtful-animal\/2012\/04\/30\/dogs-but-not-wolves-use-humans-as-tools\/<\/a>&#160; (This was actually mail but now I can\u2019t find it. I\u2019m good at losing things.) Psychologists have been trying to determine who is smarter, dogs or wolves, but that\u2019s the wrong question. Dogs do what they are good at, and rely on humans to do the rest.&#160; Wolves don\u2019t think they have that option.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"clip_image004\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image004_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image002112.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"clip_image002[11]\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image002[11]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/clip_image00211_thumb1.gif\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View 722 Friday, May 04, 2012 New Chinese Motto: \u201cHave One Child. Please.\u201d Steve Barnes is in town, and Niven, Barnes, and I went up the hill, 4 miles round trip and 750 foot elevation. Sable has hunted gophers on that hill for all of her eight years, and today \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/a-good-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-view"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}