{"id":16363,"date":"2026-10-11T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16363"},"modified":"2026-10-11T18:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:54:34","slug":"chased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16363","title":{"rendered":"Chased"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been meaning to write this one up for a while but I&#8217;m so busy I set it to the back of my mental queue (and it is quite a mental queue!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway. I was watching The Chase a couple of weeks ago when a question, which went something like this, was asked: &#8220;Which species is a Spanish island group named after?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully (!) the contestant passed and Bradley gave the answer as &#8220;Birds&#8221; which is, of course, 100% incorrect. The Canaries (for it were they) are named after dogs (the name &#8216;Las Canarias&#8217; &#8211; the Canaries &#8211; being derived from Canario, a breed of dog native to Tenerife and Gran Canaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, in other news, my application to be on The Chase is still, apparently &#8216;live&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write this one up for a while but I&#8217;m so busy I set it to the back of my mental queue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16377,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions\/16377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}