{"id":489,"date":"2002-09-27T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-27T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=489"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:44:07","slug":"five-dozen-not-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Five Dozen &#8211; Not 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My co-worker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uky.edu\/~rainer\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">Rainer<\/a> sent me this gem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMany typists know &#8220;The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog&#8221; as a<br \/>\nthirty-three-letter sentence that employs every letter in the alphabet at<br \/>\nleast once. Now fix your eyes on a sampling of the best pangrams of even<br \/>\nfewer letters. What you are about to see are meaningful sentences that<br \/>\navoid obscure words yet contain every letter of the alphabet:<br \/>\nPack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.<br \/>(thirty-two letters)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s all he sent (Rainer knows me), although the blurb suggested there were<br \/>\nother examples.  So I did a quick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Pack+my+box+with+five+dozen+liquor+jugs%22&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=site%3Dsearch\" Target=\"Offsite\">Google Search<\/a> and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fun-with-words.com\/pang_example.html\" Target=\"Offsite\">this<\/a>.  There were a few examples with even fewer letters, but none of them were anything I could ever imagine myself saying.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My co-worker Rainer sent me this gem: Many typists know &#8220;The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog&#8221; as a thirty-three-letter sentence that employs every letter in the alphabet at least once. Now fix your eyes on a sampling of the best pangrams of even fewer letters. What you are about to see are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=489\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Dozen &#8211; Not 60<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-7T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}