{"id":664,"date":"2008-03-13T16:35:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T23:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/six-degrees-of-ranganathan\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T16:35:38","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T23:35:38","slug":"six-degrees-of-ranganathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2008\/03\/13\/six-degrees-of-ranganathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Ranganathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/uploads\/ranganathan1.png' alt='srranganathanpng' title='S.R. Ranganathan, the library guru' class='right' \/><\/p>\n<p>Bound to be your new, favorite library game. Learn everything you can about the library guru and then challenge your friends to out-six-degrees you. More fun than \u201cSix Degrees of Kevin Bacon\u201d because a.) It\u2019s library-related, so obviously excellent; b.) It\u2019s obscure, which as we all know means \u201chip\u201d, and 3.) SDofKB gets easier and easier every day, and you like a challenge. Also, when it comes to Library Science, Ranganathan was like the coolest guy around. Theo did it in reverse, but he\u2019s off to a good start with a hybrid Six Degrees of RangaBacon sort of thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    1. Ranganathan died in 1972 which was the same year that the Pierre Hotel Robbery happened.<br \/>\n    2. The Pierre Hotel was robbed by Samuel Nalo and Robert Comfort of the Luchese crime family.<br \/>\n    3. Don Licio Lucchesi was a character named in the Godfather part III.<br \/>\n    4. The Godfather Part III co-starred Sofia Coppola who was also in The Outsiders.<br \/>\n    5. The Outsiders starred Matt Dillon who (6) was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bound to be your new, favorite library game. Learn everything you can about the library guru and then challenge your friends to out-six-degrees you. More fun than \u201cSix Degrees of Kevin Bacon\u201d because a.) It\u2019s library-related, so obviously excellent; b.) It\u2019s obscure, which as we all know means \u201chip\u201d, and 3.) SDofKB gets easier and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[126,155,165,168,226,227,237,249,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}