{"id":258,"date":"2004-09-17T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/09\/17\/4b896995-889d-4ea4-b358-50cb8ad73c0b\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:36","slug":"4b896995-889d-4ea4-b358-50cb8ad73c0b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/4b896995-889d-4ea4-b358-50cb8ad73c0b\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>Making With The Crazy&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Today we celebrated my nephew&#8217;s third birthday with the discord offered by a singular franchise in America that offers everything that little kids need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>pizza<\/li>\n<li>gentle, non-threatening video games<\/li>\n<li>cheap beer to keep the adults quiet and\/or mildly amused<\/li>\n<li>fuzzy robots mouthing the lyrics to 80s pop tunes reworked to spread the corporate message of FUN!<\/li>\n<li>loping, rideable amusements offering one solid minute of fun for one solid token<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes dear reader (and lurker! welcome!), tonight I joined in the Chuck E. Cheese experience in my capacity of Uncle Bob; claiming all the rights and undertaking all of the responsibilities that title bestows on me.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it was the perfect distraction from the<i> troubles<\/i>, from the escrow documents, from the home inspector&#8217;s report (roof patches are evident!), and all the rest. My nephew ran over me with the rollicking school bus (&#8220;get out of the way!&#8221; he squealed), we whacked many moles and earned many prize tickets for the effort, we ate cheap and stiff pizza, and enjoyed every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, he even got on &#8220;Club C TV&#8221; by standing between the camera and the blue screen. Make a face, get your 15 seconds of fame, then get off. Simple and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>There was even a brief point when I forgot what I&#8217;ve gotten myself into and actually had fun for a little while. I miss that.<\/p>\n<p>The weekend continuance of the mayhem looks promising too. More later.<\/p>\n<p>Your best (and stuffed) pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making With The Crazy&#8230; Friends, Today we celebrated my nephew&#8217;s third birthday with the discord offered by a singular franchise in America that offers everything that little kids need: pizza gentle, non-threatening video games cheap beer to keep the adults quiet and\/or mildly amused fuzzy robots mouthing the lyrics to 80s pop tunes reworked to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/4b896995-889d-4ea4-b358-50cb8ad73c0b\/\" 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-258","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\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}