{"id":7265,"date":"2016-04-14T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:31:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:31:56","slug":"six-inches-no-not-that-six-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7265","title":{"rendered":"Six Inches &#8211; No, Not That Six Inches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/six-inches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/six-inches.jpg\" alt=\"six inches\" width=\"280\" height=\"136\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7266\" \/><\/a>6 inches<\/p>\n<p>I saw this piece from Walt Hickey, who puts together <strong>Significant Digits<\/strong> for the <em>Fivethirtyeight<\/em> website.  I laughed out loud, and had to read it to Erik, it was so clever.  Here goes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three months ago, Inky, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/octopus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/octopus-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"octopus\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7267\" \/><\/a>octopus being detained at a holding facility in New Zealand calling itself the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/national-aquarium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/national-aquarium.jpg\" alt=\"national aquarium\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7268\" \/><\/a>National Aquarium, mounted a daring escape to freedom that involved breaking free of his enclosure, dragging his body along the floor, and exiting to the ocean through a <strong>six-inch drain<\/strong>. The details of how the prisoner of conscience \u2014 who was held without trial for two years on evidence of his affiliation with the cephalopod sect of the Mollusca phylum \u2014 escaped are only now coming to light. Worth noting is that octopi are vastly intelligent and capable of memory, and I can only assume that Inky is radicalizing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/radical-octopi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/radical-octopi-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"radical octopi\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7269\" \/><\/a>brothers-in-multiple-arms for the coming war.&#8221; [<em>The Washington Post<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just love it?  A nod to Walt Hickey of Fivethirtyeight.com for his clever take on an otherwise pedestrian piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 inches I saw this piece from Walt Hickey, who puts together Significant Digits for the Fivethirtyeight website. I laughed out loud, and had to read it to Erik, it was so clever. Here goes. &#8220;Three months ago, Inky, an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?p=7265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7274,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions\/7274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}