{"id":189222,"date":"2026-03-27T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189222"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:37:37","slug":"remembering-pearl-du-monville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/remembering-pearl-du-monville\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Pearl du Monville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s considerable discussion of baseball pitching at <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2026\/03\/27\/friday-miscellany-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Severian&#8217;s place<\/a> today, which reminds me of a <a href=\"https:\/\/loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com\/static\/pdf\/Thurber_Look_It_Up.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">James Thurber story<\/a>. It perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43196923-you-could-look-it-up\" target=\"_blank\">inspired Bill Veeck<\/a> seventy-five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s considerable discussion of baseball pitching at Severian&#8217;s place today, which reminds me of a James Thurber story. It perhaps inspired Bill Veeck seventy-five years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor-and-horror","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-NdY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189226,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189222\/revisions\/189226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}