{"id":3588,"date":"2008-04-24T17:44:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2008-04-24T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T00:44:41","slug":"afternoon-sealight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/24\/afternoon-sealight\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Sealight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things of interest I discovered while searching the Internet to craft the Darwinian language in the previous post:<\/p>\n<p>1.  The <a href='http:\/\/www.reuniting.info\/science\/coolidge_effect'>Coolidge effect<\/a> is the tendency of males of every tested mammalian species to perform at their sexual peak when introduced to a new receptive female.  The term comes from this old joke:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt>President Calvin Coolidge and his wife visited a poultry farm one day, and, during the tour, asked the farmer how he managed to produce so many fertile eggs with such a small number of roosters<\/p>\n<p>The farmer explained that his roosters performed their duty dozens of times each day.<\/p>\n<p>\"Perhaps you could point that out to Mr. Coolidge,\" replied the First Lady in a pointedly loud voice.<\/p>\n<p>The President, overhearing the remark, asked the farmer, \"Does each rooster service the same hen each time?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"No,\" replied the farmer, \"there are many hens for each rooster.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Perhaps you could point that out to Mrs. Coolidge,\" replied the President.<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>2.  This photograph:<\/p>\n<div align='center'><a href='http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/53\/Elephant_seals_fighting.jpg\/800px-Elephant_seals_fighting.jpg'><img src='\/images\/elephant_seals.jpg' border=0 title='Afternoon Sealite!'><\/div>\n<p>You can go <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Elephant_seals_fighting.jpg'>here<\/a> to see what the actual caption is.  I prefer to think it reads &#8220;A mated elephant seal pair, having consulted the Kama Sealta, decides to give the missionary position a whirl.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things of interest I discovered while searching the Internet to craft the Darwinian language in the previous post: 1. The Coolidge effect is the tendency of males of every tested mammalian species to perform at their sexual peak when introduced to a new receptive female. The term comes from this old joke: President Calvin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}