{"id":2285,"date":"2008-02-27T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2008-02-27T19:18:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:18:34","slug":"my-very-exciting-magic-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2285","title":{"rendered":"My Very Exciting Magic Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/machinist.salon.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/11_planet\/index.html\">Inspired by a contest<\/a> put on by the National Geographic Society, her class set about coming up with a mnemonic for the solar system's 11 planets. You know, like \"Roy G. Biv\" for the colors of the rainbow -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet -- or, for the Great Lakes, \"Homes\" (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior).<\/p>\n<p>Maryn won the contest with her thoroughly excellent phrase:<\/p>\n<ul>\nMy Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I would've gone with \"pink\" instead of \"Palace\". \"Pink elephants\" is much easier to remember than \"Palace elephants\".<\/p>\n<p>And so, I offer my own:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\"Make Very Elaborate Mnemonic Constructions,\" Jesus Said Unto Nazareth's Puzzle Enthusiasts.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though it's a bitch to say aloud. Try it!<\/p>\n<p>I believe it's from Cleek 2:27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a contest put on by the National Geographic Society, her class set about coming up with a mnemonic for the solar system's 11 planets. You know, like \"Roy G. Biv\" for the colors of the rainbow -- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet -- or, for the Great Lakes, \"Homes\" (Huron, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}