{"id":3257,"date":"2010-01-03T21:29:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2010-01-03T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:29:21","slug":"unusual-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/unusual-articles.html","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend any amount of time perusing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>, you will encounter articles on topics that are either exceedingly trivial, offbeat, or hard to classify.\u00a0 For those who seek these articles, they have a page for it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles\"><strong>Wikipedia: Unusual Articles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This could be considered a place to check for offbeat reference questions (although the Wikipedia search function should offer better results).\u00a0 Note that you would not want to assume that an article listed on this page would remain, as &#8220;all such lists have a risk of being deleted because of lack of neutral definition of what really is &#8216;unusual&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few articles of note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_Roundabout_%28Swindon%29\">The Magic Roundabout<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo\">Buffalo buffalo buffalo&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beatosu_and_Goblu,_Ohio\">Beatosu and Goblu, Ohio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_P._Burdell\">George P. Burdell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_3103\">ISO 3103<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resourceshelf.com\/2010\/01\/02\/the-wikipedia-list-of-unusual-articles\/\">ResourceShelf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you spend any amount of time perusing Wikipedia, you will encounter articles on topics that are either exceedingly trivial, offbeat, or hard to classify.\u00a0 For those who seek these articles, they have a page for it: Wikipedia: Unusual Articles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/unusual-articles.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2938,2965,2979],"tags":[5117,5354,4960,5116,5386,3111],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-search","category-wiki","tag-buffalo","tag-humor","tag-technologyinternet","tag-trivial","tag-wiki","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Qx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}