{"id":7411,"date":"2012-09-14T07:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T11:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2012-09-14T07:57:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T11:57:10","slug":"friday-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2012\/09\/14\/friday-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After another <strong><em>very<\/em><\/strong> long week, it&#8217;s finally Friday.  And now there&#8217;s a new way to kill the day at work.  In case you haven&#8217;t heard, the Kevin Bacon six degrees of separation game has now made its way into Google.  Just type in &#8220;bacon number&#8221; and then an actor&#8217;s name, and you get the bacon number, and how they came up with it.  This may sound silly but, trust me, it&#8217;s addictive.  And you&#8217;ll be pretty hard-pressed to get a number higher than three.  And believe me, I tried.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, Lilian Gish?  Two.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\nLillian Gish and Vittorio Gassman appeared in A Wedding.<br \/>\nVittorio Gassman and Kevin Bacon appeared in Sleepers.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Theda Bara? Three.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\nTheda Bara and Herbert Heyes appeared in The Vixen.<br \/>\nHerbert Heyes and James Hong appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.<br \/>\nJames Hong and Kevin Bacon appeared in R.I.P.D..<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elivs &#8211; 2. Tiny Tim &#8211; 3.  Marc Maron &#8211; 3.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will this kill a big part of your day, but it will take your mind off of Mitt Romney and all this nasty business in the Middle East, where everybody&#8217;s all riled up (hey, thanks for making that crappy movie, guys.  Anybody know the names of the actors in it?  I&#8217;d like to see what their Bacon Numbers are).<\/p>\n<p>Well, time to go and be productive. <\/p>\n<p>Jack Benny &#8211; 2.  Dawn Wells &#8211; 2.  Alan Hale Jr &#8211; 2.  Alan Hale Sr &#8211; 3&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, let me know if you get one higher than three. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After another very long week, it&#8217;s finally Friday. And now there&#8217;s a new way to kill the day at work. In case you haven&#8217;t heard, the Kevin Bacon six degrees of separation game has now made its way into Google. Just type in &#8220;bacon number&#8221; and then an actor&#8217;s name, and you get the bacon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7413,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}