{"id":1996,"date":"2010-07-09T02:51:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/09\/2010-7-8-what-will-you-do-when-the-ducks-come-html\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T02:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T02:51:55","slug":"2010-7-8-what-will-you-do-when-the-ducks-come-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/2010-7-8-what-will-you-do-when-the-ducks-come-html\/","title":{"rendered":"What Will You Do When The Ducks Come?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>While in San Francisco, we thought it&#8217;d be fun to Ride The Ducks&trade;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_556.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_556.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Um, quack?\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may have been a foolhardy mistake, had we been in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/homepage\/20100708_Search_suspended_for_two_missing_in_tour-boat_crash.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a>. First, I&#8217;m profoundly sad that there were holiday makers like us who were lost on what was supposed to be a fun outing. Second, who knew it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridetheducks.com\/home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">a chain<\/a>? Third, I&#8217;m now afraid of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeep-history.com\/AmphibiousJeeps.asp\" target=\"_blank\">amphibious vehicles<\/a>. I know this isn&#8217;t a common fear and there&#8217;s clearly no Latin equivalent but it&#8217;ll surely be quickly coined. I won&#8217;t suggest <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4wdonline.com\/Mil\/DUKW\/DUKW.html\" target=\"_blank\">ridetheducksaphobia<\/a><\/em>, but it&#8217;s as good as any.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, While in San Francisco, we thought it&#8217;d be fun to Ride The Ducks&trade;. This may have been a foolhardy mistake, had we been in Philadelphia. First, I&#8217;m profoundly sad that there were holiday makers like us who were lost on what was supposed to be a fun outing. Second, who knew it was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/2010-7-8-what-will-you-do-when-the-ducks-come-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Will You Do When The Ducks Come?&#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":[37],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-dangerous-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}