{"id":22,"date":"2006-05-08T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2006\/05\/me-meme\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T00:20:00","slug":"me-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2006\/05\/me-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Me meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this meme over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltheprettywords.com\/wp-archives\/2006\/04\/11\/meme-thingie\/\">All The Pretty Words<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/vanlal.livejournal.com\/18855.html\">vanlal&#8217;s lj<\/a> and decided to do it too. If nothing else, at least I&#8217;ll learn something! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The Instructions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).<\/li>\n<li>List three events that happened on your birthday.<\/li>\n<li>List two important birthdays and one interesting death.<\/li>\n<li>Post it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>My birthday is on the 16th of September<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1597\" title=\"1597\">1597<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yi_Sun-sin\" title=\"Yi Sun-sin\">Yi Sun-sin<\/a> leads 12 ships of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korea\" title=\"Korea\">Korean<\/a> fleet against an invasion by 133 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" title=\"Japan\">Japanese<\/a> ships. The Koreans sink 31 enemy ships and force a Japanese retreat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1941\" title=\"1941\">1941<\/a> &#8211; Concerned that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reza_Pahlavi\" title=\"Reza Pahlavi\">Reza Pahlavi<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shah_of_Persia\" title=\"Shah of Persia\">Shah of Persia<\/a> was about to align his petroleum-rich country with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" title=\"Germany\">Germany<\/a> during <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_II\" title=\"World War II\">World War II<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" title=\"United Kingdom\">United Kingdom<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USSR\" title=\"USSR\">USSR<\/a> occupy <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran\" title=\"Iran\">Iran<\/a> and forced him to resign in favor of his son, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi\" title=\"Mohammad Reza Pahlavi\">Mohammad Reza Pahlavi<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1956\" title=\"1956\">1956<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Play-Doh\" title=\"Play-Doh\">Play-Doh<\/a> is introduced to the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Births:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1893 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi\" title=\"Albert Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi\">Albert Szent-Gy\u00f6rgyi<\/a>, Hungarian physiologist, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine\" title=\"Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine\">Nobel Prize<\/a> laureate (d. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1986\" title=\"1986\">1986<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1925\" title=\"1925\">1925<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B._B._King\" title=\"B. B. King\">B. B. King<\/a>, American musician<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Deaths:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1932\" title=\"1932\">1932<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ronald_Ross\" title=\"Ronald Ross\">Ronald Ross<\/a>, English physician, recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine\" title=\"Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine\">Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine<\/a> (b. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1857\" title=\"1857\">1857<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone reading this, consider yourself tagged! (Oh and leave a comment with a link to your post please?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this meme over at All The Pretty Words and at vanlal&#8217;s lj and decided to do it too. If nothing else, at least I&#8217;ll learn something! \ud83d\ude00 The Instructions: Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/2006\/05\/me-meme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Me meme<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absolutegeeky.com\/oook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}