{"id":2223,"date":"2010-08-16T00:10:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2010-08-16T00:10:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T14:10:36","slug":"co-incidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Co-incidences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An hour or so ago I was reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704901104575423294099527212.html\" target=\"_blank\">piece online in <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> about Google, in which the phrase &#8216;sticky wicket&#8217; was used. This derives from cricket, of course, and on a whim I researched the author, only to find that he was born in\u00a0Philadelphia. Why would an American use a cricketing reference in an article published in a US newsapaper, presumably mostly read by Americans?<\/p>\n<p>And just now, I&#8217;ve read a Blog entry on Watts Up With That, entitled &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/08\/14\/breaking-new-paper-makes-a-hockey-sticky-wicket-of-mann-et-al-99\/\" target=\"_blank\">BREAKING: New paper makes a hockey sticky wicket of Mann et al 98\/99\/08<\/a>&#8216;. Also based in the US, Anthony Watts, the Blog owner, took the trouble to define &#8216;sticky wicket&#8217; for his readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An hour or so ago I was reading a piece online in The Wall Street Journal about Google, in which the phrase &#8216;sticky wicket&#8217; was used. This derives from cricket, of course, and on a whim I researched the author, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2223\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}