{"id":1009,"date":"2009-03-17T23:46:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2009-03-27T01:37:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T23:37:43","slug":"foundlings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/foundlings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundlings 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Of all the 6 and a half billion people in the world, what are the odds that any two people are a real match?  Stories from people who know they\u2019ve beat the odds, and the lengths they\u2019ve gone to do it\u2014including an American professor who sings Chinese opera for anyone who&#8217;ll listen, to get one step closer to his mate, and two kids who travel halfway around the country to find each other and become best friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 This American Life episode 374: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1283\">Somewhere Out There<\/a>.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/374_-somewhere-out-there.mp3]\n<p><em>Bernie Madoff woke up in jail today, after pleading guilty to 11 charges stemming from an enormous Ponzi scheme. How enormous? The most recent court documents put the figure at $65 billion. In another amazing Planet Money Radio Dramatization, Alex Blumberg, Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum act out a Ponzi scheme of their own.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 NPR, Planet Money: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/money\/2009\/03\/hear_a_ponzi_drama.html\">A Ponzi Drama<\/a>.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/17-planet-money_-a-ponzi-drama.mp3]\n<p>And two clips from Weeds. I don&#8217;t know if I look forwards to the next season, but It&#8217;s prolly worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>[flv:http:\/\/www.monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/weeds_song.flv http:\/\/www.monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/weeds_song.png 640 266]<\/p>\n<p>[flv:http:\/\/www.monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/weeds_pictures_of_mom.flv http:\/\/www.monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/weeds_pictures_of_mom.png 640 275]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the 6 and a half billion people in the world, what are the odds that any two people are a real match? Stories from people who know they\u2019ve beat the odds, and the lengths they\u2019ve gone to do it\u2014including an American professor who sings Chinese opera for anyone who&#8217;ll listen, to get one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/foundlings-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Foundlings 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559,4,7],"tags":[614,611,233,442,612,1887,613],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-found","category-video","tag-body-building","tag-fraud","tag-masturbation","tag-radio","tag-tidbit","tag-video","tag-weeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}