{"id":1307,"date":"2009-12-07T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/12\/we-should-have-taken-pictures.html"},"modified":"2009-12-07T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T12:06:00","slug":"we-should-have-taken-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/12\/we-should-have-taken-pictures.html","title":{"rendered":"We Should Have Taken Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim and I lamented for years that whenever we would take the kids to a hotel or even the cottage, they would jump on the beds.  It was their &#8220;gymnastics&#8221; routine, or so we were told.  Well, to be fair, it was pretty much just the younger two who would leap on to, off of, and on the bouncy mattress until it it was little more than a heap of rumpled bedding.  Which for a couple of neat-niks like us made bedtime a bit more of a chore than we might have hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Had it only occurred to us to snap a few photos, we might have launched the current Internet craze years earlier.  I give you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelsbycity.net\/blog\/bed-jump\/\">BedJump.com<\/a>, a site where people have photographed themselves and their friends in all manner of bed-bounced airborne poses in hotels all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Many photos look much like what I remember the kids doing:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelsbycity.net\/blog\/bed-jump\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2455\/3874963089_9d856934d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">While others are pretty cleverly done:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelsbycity.net\/blog\/bed-jump\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 181px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2651\/3726073053_bc55a70e7e.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelsbycity.net\/blog\/bed-jump\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 500px; height: 375px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2488\/3724096744_a7e57041b8.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m thinking maybe we should see if we could get them back into this habit and cash in on our fleeting 15 minutes of fame&#8230;<\/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>Kim and I lamented for years that whenever we would take the kids to a hotel or even the cottage,<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/12\/we-should-have-taken-pictures.html\" title=\"Read We Should Have Taken Pictures\">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-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","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=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}