{"id":329,"date":"2005-07-17T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-17T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/17\/c3b29925-47fe-45b9-99f7-9586a77824ee\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:25","slug":"c3b29925-47fe-45b9-99f7-9586a77824ee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/c3b29925-47fe-45b9-99f7-9586a77824ee\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>The Monkey Wrapped His Tail &#8216;Round The Flagpole&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Friends, it seems that there a couple things I should&#8217;ve known before the July 4th holiday. First, no matter how much icing you put on a cake&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_300.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;if its primary ingredients are salt and vinegar, you can&#8217;t help but be disappointed with dessert.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_303.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The cake, in this charming metaphor, was the cabin itself. No manner of icing, or gingerbread, or little touches were enough to glaze over the undercurrent of familial discontent that rose to the surface that bright weekend. That&#8217;s neither here nor there though. As they say, I don&#8217;t have a dog in that hunt.<\/p>\n<p>What I do know is that most of us had a good time. There was giggling:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_301.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>there was fishing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_308.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>a little parade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_304.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_307.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>a nice pony in that same parade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_305.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>little kids playing in the dirtiest dirt in the western United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_309.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>somebody who might need a nap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_302.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and, oh yeah, cake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_310.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>More later,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monkey Wrapped His Tail &#8216;Round The Flagpole&#8230; Friends, it seems that there a couple things I should&#8217;ve known before the July 4th holiday. First, no matter how much icing you put on a cake&#8230; &#8230;if its primary ingredients are salt and vinegar, you can&#8217;t help but be disappointed with dessert. The cake, in this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/c3b29925-47fe-45b9-99f7-9586a77824ee\/\" 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-329","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\/329","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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}