{"id":4985,"date":"2016-02-15T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2016-02-15T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:12:18","slug":"the-mysteries-of-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4985","title":{"rendered":"The Mysteries of Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Those of you who have used Perl will understand this: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/perl?src=hash\">#perl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EeWfpfY9nN\">pic.twitter.com\/EeWfpfY9nN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David M. Bradford (@tinypig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinypig\/status\/684807784177778689\">January 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> It turns out, though, that the joke&#8217;s on us: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Haha yes Perl is ok with it. Just to up the ante a bit: $ perl -ce &#39;use strict;\\m\/ &gt;_&lt; \\m\/&#39;&#10;-e syntax OK <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hzkMkEdxft\">https:\/\/t.co\/hzkMkEdxft<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David M. Bradford (@tinypig) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinypig\/status\/685496771926192133\">January 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have used Perl will understand this: #perl pic.twitter.com\/EeWfpfY9nN &mdash; David M. Bradford (@tinypig) January 6, 2016 It turns out, though, that the joke&#8217;s on us: Haha yes Perl is ok with it. Just to up the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}