{"id":19508,"date":"2021-02-06T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19508"},"modified":"2021-02-07T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T19:34:45","slug":"its-the-small-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19508","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Small Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Crazy but true, I have a subscription to <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. Normally I couldn&#8217;t (or wouldn&#8217;t try to) afford it. But last year they offered me a subscription at a no-brainer price, and I took it, with the assumption that the cartoons alone would make it worth the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cartoons do indeed make it worth the money. But what, you might ask, is the next best thing about the magazine? The stories and poems are good, it&#8217;s true. The online crosswords are, too. And yet, what I really love are the diaereses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s those double-dots that have grabbed my attention and won my affection. You can go months, years even, without seeing a single diaeresis, but they&#8217;re everywhere in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. Co\u00f6rdinator. Ana\u00efs. Re\u00ebnactment. Oh, glory! My version of WordPress didn&#8217;t even offer a way (that I could find) to create a diaeresis symbol, so I had to add a plug-in for it. And now that I&#8217;ve done that, I&#8217;m just s\u00d4 h\u00c3ppy th\u00c6t \u00ce wa\u014bt t\u014f shou\u0166, &#8220;\u0128 &#x2764; s\u2c63ecial \u20acharacters! Dou\u0243le-dot\u015b fore\u00ebver!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the small things that give life its zest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy but true, I have a subscription to The New Yorker. Normally I couldn&#8217;t (or wouldn&#8217;t try to) afford it. But last year they offered me a subscription at a no-brainer price, and I took it, with the assumption that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=19508\">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":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19508"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19522,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19508\/revisions\/19522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}