{"id":1064,"date":"2009-04-23T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/alack-for-it-is-but-foolery.html"},"modified":"2009-04-23T06:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:40:00","slug":"alack-for-it-is-but-foolery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/alack-for-it-is-but-foolery.html","title":{"rendered":"Alack! For It Is but Foolery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago.  The Windy City.  Home of the Cubs, deep dish pizza, the Sears Tower, and the St. Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre.  Mayor Daley now wishes to add to that list by proclaiming verily that Chicago shall spawn the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/chi-talk-shakespeare-0420apr20,0,24336.story\">Talk Like Shakespeare Day<\/a> on Thursday next.  Ummm&#8230; yippee?<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, it just doesn&#8217;t lend itself to the sort of fun for all ages that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/\">Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a> brings.  I just can&#8217;t see me coaxing the boys into donning Elizabethan collars and sending them off on the school bus.   Let&#8217;s see, swords, rum, and salty talk vs. angst, death, and fruity talk.  Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Methinks this stands not a chance of catching on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago. The Windy City. Home of the Cubs, deep dish pizza, the Sears Tower, and the St. Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/alack-for-it-is-but-foolery.html\" title=\"Read Alack! For It Is but Foolery\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}