{"id":201,"date":"2008-08-23T19:52:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2008-08-23T19:52:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:52:24","slug":"the-law-of-diminishing-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"The law of diminishing returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After six proposals, the quality of the reviews tends to decline sharply. So the Internet ban is rescinded for the rest of the evening. It will return tomorrow though &#8211; there are still five to go.<\/p>\n<p>Here, as a diversion:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/grendelpuppy.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny Grendel\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grendel when we got him as a &#8220;tiny&#8221; puppy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/grendelslide.jpg\" alt=\"Grendel playing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grendel after he learned that going down the slide was the best thing <i>ever<\/i>. He would go down the slide over and over until he was too tired to walk. &#8220;Oh please one more! I can still climb the ladder. I think. Maybe if you give me a boost! Just one more time down the slide!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He sanded off the face of his rabies tag from landing in the sandpile at the bottom head-first.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/catpair.jpg\" alt=\"Matched set\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the matched set of cats, who really didn&#8217;t get along nearly as well as this photo suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six proposals, the quality of the reviews tends to decline sharply. So the Internet ban is rescinded for the rest of the evening. It will return tomorrow though &#8211; there are still five to go. Here, as a diversion: Grendel when we got him as a &#8220;tiny&#8221; puppy. Grendel after he learned that going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-whining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}