{"id":13289,"date":"2005-08-02T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/unanswerables\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T23:27:00","slug":"unanswerables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/unanswerables\/","title":{"rendered":"Unanswerables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Snopes.com<\/i><\/a>, a definitive source for determining the veracity of &ldquo;common fallacies, misinformation, old wives&rsquo; tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items,&rdquo; has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/humor\/question\/urgent.asp\" target=\"_blank\">collected some very funny user requests<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every day our inbox fills with hundreds of questions that range from the routine to the extraordinary, the mundane to the fantastic. While we&rsquo;re honored that our readers think to turn to us with these head-scratchers, many of their queries are too obscure or complicated for us to answer. Among the more unusual questions that are sent our way, we sometimes find a few seemingly posed with such a sense of urgency that we can&rsquo;t help but wonder about the circumstances that prompted them \u2014 and the results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Makes you wonder about some of those people&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/weird\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">weird<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/reference\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">reference<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112300319099903627?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snopes.com, a definitive source for determining the veracity of &ldquo;common fallacies, misinformation, old wives&rsquo; tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items,&rdquo; has collected some very funny user requests: Every day our inbox fills with hundreds of questions that range from the routine to the extraordinary, the mundane to the fantastic. While we&rsquo;re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/02\/unanswerables\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unanswerables&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}