{"id":789,"date":"2011-04-11T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=789"},"modified":"2011-04-10T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T07:16:18","slug":"what-and-give-up-show-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"What, and give up show business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is something admirable about a person who can keep it together in the face of the <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-816 alignleft\" title=\"Vizzini cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vizzini-cropped-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>inconceivable. And, while you may think this is a tenuous link to the letter of the day, I prefer to think of it as a salute to Eugene <strong>I<\/strong>onesco, father of Absurdist Theatre. \u00a0I think he and my great movie idol, Bustor Keaton, would both approve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Besides, it is Monday and I thought I&#8217;d cut y&#8217;all a break by skipping straight to a little comic relief.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and seeing as I am a complete techtard and can&#8217;t find a way to make this into an obvious video player thingie, you&#8217;ll just have to click on the picture of the elephant, if you can find it hiding in the picture&#8230;and, well, this is one that always makes me laugh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/zOT8Lcby1Eg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-790\" title=\"elephant hiding behind a tree\" src=\"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/elephant-hiding-behind-a-tree.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something admirable about a person who can keep it together in the face of the inconceivable. And, while you may think this is a tenuous link to the letter of the day, I prefer to think of it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108,202],"tags":[199,200,201,197,203,204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}