{"id":35276,"date":"2015-12-10T16:54:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=35276"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T21:01:23","slug":"dewey-decimal-day-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2015\/12\/10\/dewey-decimal-day-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Dewey Decimal Day! (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child (way, way, way before computers) I was fascinated by the Dewey Decimal System. How I loved perusing the sliding drawers of those beautiful wooden library cases!  They were packed with tiny cards, key to my quest for the number that would lead me to a book&#8217;s aisle and shelf location.<\/p>\n<p>So I feel compelled to celebrate <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nationaldaycalendar.com\/dewey-decimal-system-day-december-10\/\">Dewey Decimal Day<\/a> with a limerick.  (It&#8217;s observed each year on December 10th, in honor of the birthday of Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.)<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. librarian Dewey<br \/>\nFound our library book placement screwy.<br \/>\n&#8220;Shelve this system,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Number topics instead!&#8221;<br \/>\n(So chop suey is near ratatouille.)<\/p>\n<p>Note: Under this <a href=\"http:\/\/bpeck.com\/references\/ddc\/ddc.htm\">topical\/numeric system<\/a>, food books would generally fall into the 641 classification. Cooking and recipes would be 641.5, whereas &#8220;cooking specific kinds of composite dishes&#8221; would be 641.8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child (way, way, way before computers) I was fascinated by the Dewey Decimal System. How I loved perusing the sliding drawers of those beautiful wooden library cases! They were packed with tiny cards, key to my quest for the number that would lead me to a book&#8217;s aisle and shelf location. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,41,42,1524],"tags":[728,1510,4647,2092,4648,4645,4643,328,4646,2057,4644,5012],"class_list":["post-35276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-food-drink-humor","category-limericks","category-odd-holidays","tag-birthday-limerick","tag-books-humor","tag-ddc","tag-december-holidays","tag-dewey-decimal-classification-system","tag-dewey-decimal-day","tag-dewey-decimal-system","tag-food-verse","tag-library-humor","tag-library-poetry","tag-melville-louis-kossuth-dewey","tag-odd-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35276"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35293,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35276\/revisions\/35293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}