{"id":825,"date":"2008-04-01T02:32:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/04\/01\/a-truly-classic-april-fools-prank\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T02:32:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:32:29","slug":"a-truly-classic-april-fools-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/04\/01\/a-truly-classic-april-fools-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"A truly classic April Fool&#8217;s prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/april\/1\/newsid_2819000\/2819261.stm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/38910000\/jpg\/_38910395_spaghetti238.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Still from BBC program on the spaghetti harvest\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t have time to come up with a clever April Fool&#8217;s joke, but I will take a moment to point everyone at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/april\/1\/newsid_2819000\/2819261.stm\">the classic 1957 BBC program<\/a> on the spring spaghetti harvest in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Really wonderful stuff, and very cool that the wonders of the intarweb (and the sensibleness of those nerds at the BBC) allow us to see it all over again!<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/april-fools\/\" title=\"April Fool&#039;s\">April Fool&#039;s<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/bbc\/\" title=\"BBC\">BBC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/television\/\" title=\"television\">television<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/16\/problems-with-signal-to-noise\/\" title=\"Problems with signal-to-noise (16 Jan 08)\">Problems with signal-to-noise<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/02\/13\/a-heartfelt-plug-for-a-history-of-the-world-in-100-objects\/\" title=\"A heartfelt plug for &#8220;A history of the world in 100 objects&#8221; (13 Feb 10)\">A heartfelt plug for &#8220;A history of the world in 100 objects&#8221;<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have time to come up with a clever April Fool&#8217;s joke, but I will take a moment to point everyone at the classic 1957 BBC program on the spring spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. Really wonderful stuff, and very cool that the wonders of the intarweb (and the sensibleness of those nerds at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/04\/01\/a-truly-classic-april-fools-prank\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A truly classic April Fool&#8217;s prank&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[11,14,28],"tags":[299,300,221],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-dj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":334,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/04\/01\/that-crazy-first-of-april-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":825,"position":0},"title":"That crazy first of April thing","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"1 Apr 06","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadly, the post about Turq was no April Fool's, but there's plenty of fine frivolity out there on the net for those so inclined. 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