{"id":1800,"date":"2010-07-20T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/20\/lmao_eh\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:57:53","slug":"lmao_eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/20\/lmao_eh\/","title":{"rendered":"LMAO, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nm\/journal\/v16\/n7\/full\/nm0710-731b.html\">Canadian Beacon<\/a> jumped out at me from my <em>Nature Medicine<\/em> RSS feed yesterday. As a good bacon (and pun) loving <del>syrup sucker<\/del> <del>ice hole<\/del> Canadian, I clicked through to read the whole article, and almost immediately attracted a colleague to my desk to see what all the laughing was <del>aboot<\/del> about.<br \/>\nFor this, my friends, was the graphic used to illustrate the list of drugs most commonly purchased from online Canadian pharmacies by Americans:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/19344191@N00\/4812863460\/\" title=\"Picture 25 by wonder_brit, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4812863460_cf9a535562.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"422\" alt=\"Picture 25\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe only way this could <em>possibly<\/em> have been <em>any<\/em> funnier is if they&#8217;d used an image of a lumberjack instead of a mountie in conjunction with the words &#8220;female hormone replacement therapy&#8221;<br \/>\n(Obligatory video:<\/p>\n<p>)<br \/>\nWell played, <em>Nature Medicine<\/em>. This article made my entire week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article called Canadian Beacon jumped out at me from my Nature Medicine RSS feed yesterday. As a good bacon (and pun) loving syrup sucker ice hole Canadian, I clicked through to read the whole article, and almost immediately attracted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/07\/20\/lmao_eh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}