{"id":124559,"date":"2022-11-24T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=124559"},"modified":"2022-11-23T13:28:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T19:28:06","slug":"strange-but-true-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/strange-but-true-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange But True"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2022 More than 200 artificial languages have been created for use in books, TV, and movies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Our 50-star <strong>United States<\/strong> flag was designed by <strong>Robert Heft<\/strong>, a 17-year-old student in <strong>Lancaster<\/strong>, <strong>Ohio<\/strong>. He made it for a high school history project and received a B- from his teacher for lack of originality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>NASA <\/strong>astronaut <strong>Leland Melvin<\/strong> sneaked his two rescue dogs, <strong>Jake <\/strong>and <strong>Scout<\/strong>, into <strong>Houston<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Johnson Space Center<\/strong> for his official\u2014and unique\u2014photoshoot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 In 2013, developers of a skyscraper in <strong>London<\/strong>, nicknamed the \u201cWalkieTalkie\u201d due to its shape, realized that some design changes were seriously and immediately in order. The building reflected the sun onto the street below for two hours a day, with a beam so hot it melted parts of a <strong>Jaguar XJ<\/strong> parked nearby.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Some beaches on the <strong>Japanese <\/strong>islands of <strong>Taketomi<\/strong>, <strong>Hatoma<\/strong>, and <strong>Iriomote <\/strong>have star-shaped sand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Actor <strong>Mike Meyers<\/strong> originally gave the character of <strong>Shrek <\/strong>a thick <strong>Canadian <\/strong>accent but decided, after animation had begun, that a <strong>Scottish <\/strong>one would better suit the character. The film had to be re-animated and cost over $4 million, or around 10% of its overall budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Thought for the Day:<\/strong> \u201cNever allow a person to tell you no who doesn\u2019t have the power to say yes.\u201d \u2014<strong>Eleanor Roosevelt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 More than 200 artificial languages have been created for use in books, TV, and movies.&nbsp; \u2022 Our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":117992,"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":""},"categories":[20744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-but-true"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/strange_true_c.jpg?fit=1312%2C618&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}