{"id":210,"date":"2005-01-25T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/carnival-time\/"},"modified":"2005-01-25T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T15:16:00","slug":"carnival-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/25\/carnival-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how &#8220;carnival&#8221; became chosen to describe a collection of self-submitted blog posts. Seems like &#8220;pot luck&#8221; would be a more accurate description. Nevertheless, get your favorite science posts ready for the next <a href=\"http:\/\/tangledbank.net\/\">Tangled Bank<\/a>, to be hosted at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jasminecola.com\/\">JasmineCola<\/a>.  The deadline is tomorrow (Weds), so don&#8217;t delay; submit your entries to <a href=\"mailto:host@tangledbank.net\">host@tangledbank.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tangled Bank is by now practically an old-timer as these things go.  A newcomer on the block is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentrasmussen.com\/archives\/2005\/01\/carnival_of_the.html\">Carnival of the Godless<\/a>, to be hosted for the first time at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentrasmussen.com\/\">Unscrewing the Inscrutable<\/a>. They are looking for posts about religion\/philosophy\/atheism &#8220;from a godless perspective,&#8221; although you yourself don&#8217;t have to be godless. The deadline is Friday the 28th, so submit to <a href=\"mailto:cotg-submission@brentrasmussen.com\">cotg-submission@brentrasmussen.com<\/a> if you have something godless to say.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, check out the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/tigerhawk.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/carnival-of-commies-2-best-of-left-in.html\">Carnival of the Commies<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerhawk.blogspot.com\/\">TigerHawk<\/a>. A righty takes a deep breath and surveys the lefty blogosphere. Jack does a good job, and is susceptible to flattery. Preposterous gets a mention for our lament about the decision not to service the <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.blogspot.com\/2005_01_01_preposterousuniverse_archive.html#110641565928657873\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>; to be sure, the decision would have been equally lamentable if it had been made by a liberal, and I would think many conservatives are just as disappointed as I am.<\/p>\n<p>Update:  Tangled Bank is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jasminecola.com\/archives\/tangled_bank_20.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how &#8220;carnival&#8221; became chosen to describe a collection of self-submitted blog posts. Seems like &#8220;pot luck&#8221; would be a more accurate description. Nevertheless, get your favorite science posts ready for the next Tangled Bank, to be hosted at JasmineCola. The deadline is tomorrow (Weds), so don&#8217;t delay; submit your entries to host@tangledbank.net. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}