{"id":5480,"date":"2014-04-07T19:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=5480"},"modified":"2014-04-07T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T04:22:40","slug":"oh-no-disneyland-burned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2014\/04\/07\/oh-no-disneyland-burned-down\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oh no, Disneyland burned down!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Jack Handey&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com\/\">Deep Thoughts<\/a>\u201d\u2014especially this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take mylittle nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. &#8220;Oh no&#8221;, I said, &#8220;Disneyland burned down.&#8221; He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Man was I thinking of that the other day when we &amp; the lads walked (and walked, and walked) through the mall en route to the super-pneumatic, hyperkinetic promised Bouncy Land\u2014only to discover that it was closed &amp; padlocked!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"DisneylandBurned.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/DisneylandBurned.jpg\" alt=\"DisneylandBurned\" width=\"530\" height=\"530\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Poor Hen cried &amp; cried. We felt terrible, but don\u2019t despair: We almost immediately located another \u201cjump-around place,\u201d drove there and had a ball (actually 300 balls, as the boys tried to force-feed me the contents of a ball pit). Henry was delighted, gleefully announcing, \u201cI\u2019m making myself a new chair, and it\u2019s gonna be called \u2018Your Face!!\u2019\u201d All\u2019s well that ends with Dad-O at the bottom of a well. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Jack Handey&#8217;s \u201cDeep Thoughts\u201d\u2014especially this one: One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take mylittle nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. &#8220;Oh no&#8221;, I said, &#8220;Disneyland burned down.&#8221; He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}