{"id":8932,"date":"2014-03-24T20:07:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2014-03-24T20:07:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:07:57","slug":"wild-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8932","title":{"rendered":"Wild Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect Example of How Knowledge is Not Data, It is Certainty<br \/>\nShe wanted to serve her guests mushroom-smothered steak, but she had no mushrooms and no time to buy them.<br \/>\nHer husband suggested, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you go pick some of the mushrooms that are growing wild down by the stream?<br \/>\n&#8220;No, some wild mushrooms are poisonous.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, I see animals eating them and they&#8217;re OK.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo she picked a bunch and washed, sliced and saut\u00e9ed them for her dinner.<br \/>\nThen she went out on the back porch and gave Spot, their dog, a double handful. Spot ate every bite.<br \/>\nAll morning long, she watched the dog.<br \/>\nThe wild mushrooms hadn&#8217;t affected him after a few hours, so she decided to use them.<br \/>\nThe meal was a great success.<br \/>\nAfter everyone had finished, her daughter came in and whispered in her ear, &#8220;Mum, Spot is dead.&#8221;<br \/>\nTrying to keep her head about her, she left the room as quickly as possible, called the doctor and told him what had happened.<br \/>\nThe doctor said, &#8220;That&#8217;s really bad, but I think we can save them. I&#8217;ll call for an ambulance and I&#8217;ll be there as quickly as I can. We&#8217;ll give everyone enemas and we&#8217;ll pump out their stomachs and everything will be fine. Just keep them calm.&#8221;<br \/>\nBefore long they started to hear the sirens as the ambulance tore down the road.<br \/>\nThe Paramedics and the doctor had their suitcases, syringes, and a stomach pump.<br \/>\nOne by one, they took each person into the bathroom, gave them an enema, and pumped out their stomach.<br \/>\nAfter the last one was done the doctor came out and said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Everything will be okay now,&#8221; and with that he left.<br \/>\nThe hosts and the guests were all weak and drained sitting around the living room when the daughter came in and said to her mum,<br \/>\n&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe that guy!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What guy?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You know, that one who ran over Spot, he never even slowed down&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect Example of How Knowledge is Not Data, It is Certainty She wanted to serve her guests mushroom-smothered steak, but she had no mushrooms and no time to buy them. Her husband suggested, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you go pick some of the mushrooms that are growing wild down by the stream? &#8220;No, some wild mushrooms are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wild Mushrooms&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}