{"id":814,"date":"2006-11-28T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T18:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-dolphin-overlords\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T18:04:39","slug":"i-for-one-welcome-our-new-dolphin-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/28\/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-dolphin-overlords\/","title":{"rendered":"I, for one, welcome our new dolphin overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I saw this news article<\/a> about researchers finding a dolphin with “legs” I immediately remembered reading an article in the Onion<\/a> that rings so incredibly true it’s amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 The Onion’s take is hilarious<\/a> and worth a read, it had me crying the first time I read it:<\/p>\n

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“I believe I speak for the entire human race when I say, ‘Holy f@$*,'” said Oceanographic Institute director Dr. James Aoki, noting that the dolphin has a cranial capacity 40 percent greater than that of humans. “That’s it for us monkeys.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s funny as hell, but it’s also very cool that they have such a direct link to dolphins having once had limbs (the actual article, not The Onion spoof).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I saw this news article about researchers finding a dolphin with “legs” I immediately remembered reading an article in the Onion that rings so incredibly true it’s amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 The Onion’s take is hilarious and worth a read, it had … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-d8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}