{"id":696,"date":"2009-05-05T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2009-05-05T11:35:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T15:35:36","slug":"off-to-bichonicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Off to Bichonicon!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carol and I are packing up for the dash down I-55 to St. Louis, where we will be for a few days, attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bichon.org\/2009\/2009NS.htm\">the Bichon Frise Nationals<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheratonwestport.com\/\">Sheraton Westport Chalet<\/a>. Hundreds and hundreds of bichons in one hotel! Furballdemonium! As always, it&#8217;s hard to tell how often I&#8217;ll be able to post while there&#8211;hotel broadband is a very uneven phenomenon. I&#8217;ll try and get some pictures for those who can&#8217;t imagine it. (On the other hand, I know that most of you can imagine a <em>lot<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>But in the meantime, I want to post more broadly what Jim O&#8217;Brien pointed out in a comment to yesterday&#8217;s entry. Spelled correctly in Irish, &#8220;oonchick&#8221; would be &#8220;oinseach&#8221;&#8211;not that I would have had a chance in hell of guessing!&#8211;and means what I think Sade meant: a person of pathetic and foolish stupidity. And although Jim had not heard the term &#8220;gomog,&#8221; a &#8220;gom&#8221; is Irish slang for idiot. I greatly appreciate Jim&#8217;s tips, and again, spelling is key: If you can&#8217;t spell it, you can&#8217;t find it.<\/p>\n<p>And for quick grins, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominosugar.com\/carbonfree\/default.htm\">Domino is now pushing certified CarbonFree sugar<\/a>! (Yes, yes, yes, I know what they mean. But multibilliondollar corporations should maybe filter their merchandising efforts for that species of completely avoidable howler.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol and I are packing up for the dash down I-55 to St. Louis, where we will be for a few days, attending the Bichon Frise Nationals at the Sheraton Westport Chalet. Hundreds and hundreds of bichons in one hotel! Furballdemonium! As always, it&#8217;s hard to tell how often I&#8217;ll be able to post while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[38,43,78],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","tag-dogs","tag-humor","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}