{"id":2363,"date":"2002-08-22T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-22T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wwco.com\/~wls\/blog\/2002\/08\/22\/bowls-of-speghetti\/"},"modified":"2002-08-22T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-22T18:14:00","slug":"bowls-of-speghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/22\/bowls-of-speghetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowls of Speghetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I managed to swing by the new candy store in Ashburn; right as I walked in a promotional balloon popped. I would have considered it conincidence, until someone else walked in and another balloon popped. My guess is that they have a remote control connected to a sensor, and they pop the balloons with infrared lasers in order to get your attention. Pretty clever.<\/p>\n<p>Went to Movie Night(tm) last night, and it felt like months since I&#8217;ve been. That might be due to the fact it was months since I&#8217;ve been. We watched Thumbtanic and BatThumb (and a whole lot of kids shows before the main event). The young-one has gone from baby to toddler in the blink of an eye, has hair, is running around, and whapping mommy. It was hard to say which was more entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>That evening I spilled the news about the surprise party happening tonight. Actually, it&#8217;s not so much a surprise as in he won&#8217;t know it&#8217;s coming, but more of a surprise that we recently thought to do it.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the night was spent doing Unix Regular Expressions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I managed to swing by the new candy store in Ashburn; right as I walked in a promotional balloon popped. I would have considered it conincidence, until someone else walked in and another balloon popped. My guess is that they have a remote control connected to a sensor, and they pop the balloons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/22\/bowls-of-speghetti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bowls of Speghetti&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}