{"id":18,"date":"2006-10-26T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T04:24:57","slug":"great-minds-think-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Great Minds Think Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20061026.wtwinz1026\/BNStory\/National\/home\">news story<\/a> about conjoined (aka &#8220;Siamese&#8221;) twins joined at the head just born in Canada. I read the story and it turns out the parents are from the small town I grew up in! Wow!! I don&#8217;t think I know anyone in their families, but still nevertheless, as far as stories about conjoined twins being born close to home go, it&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>I used to think nothing ever happened in Vernon. But ten years ago, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2006\/04\/06\/bc_vernon-vigil20060406.html\">biggest mass murders in Canadian history<\/a> took place there. Now this! That place is turning into a freak show. Maybe if they get a bearded lady, I shall move back.<\/p>\n<p>(Good heavens &#8212; is this turning into a gossip column?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A news story about conjoined (aka &#8220;Siamese&#8221;) twins joined at the head just born in Canada. I read the story and it turns out the parents are from the small town I grew up in! Wow!! I don&#8217;t think I know anyone in their families, but still nevertheless, as far as stories about conjoined twins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/?p=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Minds Think Alike<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richardkiss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}