{"id":357,"date":"2006-01-31T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/01\/31\/8e1a0266-8fc1-4cd5-be88-a442f653dde0\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:29:21","slug":"8e1a0266-8fc1-4cd5-be88-a442f653dde0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/8e1a0266-8fc1-4cd5-be88-a442f653dde0\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><b>Hoax?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My Birthday Holiday Season has started with a whimper this year, which is a little disconcerting considering that it celebrates an even four decades of people being annoyed by my presence. A little depressing too. I&#8217;ve countered that at the moment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/wma-pop-up\/-\/B000002LGY001004\/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_004\/104-8092625-1448739\" target=\"_blank\">Love Shack<\/a> playing in a loop at, once again, annoying levels. Who doesn&#8217;t love a Chrysler as big as a whale, after all?<\/p>\n<p>My sister has begged off whatever celebration might have occurred to be at work the next day. I&#8217;m of two minds about this. Really working? A hoax to engender surprise when she shows up unannounced at some unplanned, &#8220;sorry it didn&#8217;t work out&#8221; consolation dinner?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not buying any of it (<i>proposing a &#8220;third way?&#8221; that&#8217;s just weird. &#8211; ed<\/i>). We&#8217;ll just have to see, won&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>Your pal,<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoax? My Birthday Holiday Season has started with a whimper this year, which is a little disconcerting considering that it celebrates an even four decades of people being annoyed by my presence. A little depressing too. I&#8217;ve countered that at the moment with Love Shack playing in a loop at, once again, annoying levels. Who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/8e1a0266-8fc1-4cd5-be88-a442f653dde0\/\" 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-357","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\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}