{"id":2109,"date":"2008-02-08T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:24","slug":"two-little-sparkles-and-drum-ro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Two little sparkles&#8230; and a drum roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last pair of baubles from today are little funnies I picked up from being out and about. First is the message <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/eNewsletter\/CA6529535\/2788.html\" target=\"_blank\">from Our Leader<\/a>. Wait, you didn&#8217;t know we had one? It&#8217;s Mr. Ambassador. And BOY, does HE HAVE PLANS! Or else, just plans for cool outfits, swami bowing and appropriately regal waving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=511253&amp;in_page_id=1770\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 354px; height: 493px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2008\/01_05\/oldagegymMENSYN_468x655.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a><br \/>A few weeks back, I remember I just about choked on my coffee when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimandjason.com\/blog\/2007-10-19\/grandpa-me-and-wii.html\" target=\"_blank\">about Senior Citizens playing with a Wii<\/a>. Now Jason <a href=\"http:\/\/kimandjason.com\/blog\/2008-02-08\/grandma-goes-out-to-play.html\" target=\"_blank\"> at Escape Adulthood has found one better &#8212; <\/a> an older person PLAY GROUND. People &#8212; this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=511253&amp;in_page_id=1770\" target=\"_blank\">an idea<\/a> whose time has come. That, and snow days for people over high school age are ideas that we as a people should run with. Are you with me?<\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 153);\">DRUM ROLL PLEASE:<\/b> WHO has a guest blogger coming who is cool and writes really awesome cultural investigation books? Who wants to win a free copy of a book that&#8217;s about things like running purple dye, disastrous family dinners, Hair Behaving Badly, and throwing dumplings?<\/p>\n<p><i style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 153);\">Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet<\/i>: The novel. The Author! The review. Coming soon to a blog near you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last pair of baubles from today are little funnies I picked up from being out and about. First is the message from Our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,15,10],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4695,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}