{"id":174,"date":"2004-11-14T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=174"},"modified":"2004-11-14T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T13:21:20","slug":"whatever-happened-to-tickle-me-elmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to &#8220;Tickle me Elmo?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Quick dear!  It&#8217;s time to open your Christmas present!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh Boy!  I&#8217;m so excited!&#8221;  ::rips wrapping paper::<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t what you&#8217;ve always wanted?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow, Cool!  it&#8217;s a&#8230;. wart encrusted bald purple&#8230; furry thing!  Just what I&#8217;ve been wanting!  Thanks&#8230; I&#8230; think&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/what.jpg\" alt=\"wtf\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or are toy makers running out of ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toys are starting to get, well, weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}