{"id":143,"date":"2004-02-03T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/02\/03\/00184dd5-9a79-44cb-acb8-e119f21d825f\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:30:06","slug":"00184dd5-9a79-44cb-acb8-e119f21d825f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/00184dd5-9a79-44cb-acb8-e119f21d825f\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>An Open Letter&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/data.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Dear Brent Spiner,<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to write to wish you a happy anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the weather is like in outer space for you, but a certain famous rat here on Earth poked his head out of a hole, saw his shadow, and according to legend, we&#8217;re in for six more weeks of winter. I&#8217;ll be in Palm Springs all this week, so that means a bone-chilling 64 degrees (that&#8217;s Fahrenheit. I know that in space everything is metric, but please bear with me here).<\/p>\n<p>I also hope that you find time in your busy schedule in outer space to have a happy birthday. As you may know, this past weekend marked the beginning of another event here on Earth. It was the start of my own Birthday Holiday Observance Interval. At this special time of year, people all over the world get together and have parties in my honor. There is much celebration, as you might imagine, and this year members of the business community even put together a championship football game to coincide with my Birthday Holiday. I found that to be a very thoughtful treat indeed!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re sorry that you couldn&#8217;t make it this year, but we hope that you&#8217;re doing well. Keep up the good work in outer space.<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Open Letter&#8230; Dear Brent Spiner, I wanted to write to wish you a happy anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo! I don&#8217;t know what the weather is like in outer space for you, but a certain famous rat here on Earth poked his head out of a hole, saw his &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/00184dd5-9a79-44cb-acb8-e119f21d825f\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}