{"id":195,"date":"2006-03-07T12:44:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-07T18:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2006-03-07T12:47:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-07T18:47:08","slug":"april-one-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/07\/april-one-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"April One Petition&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby propose that we make <strong>&#8220;April Fool&#8217;s Day&#8221;<\/strong> a National holiday&#8230;..  You can celebrate the <em>&#8220;Fools&#8221;<\/em> that are in political office, or the <em>&#8220;Fools&#8221;<\/em> that put them there&#8230;..  I know this will cause problems with our current system of placing almost all of our National holidays on Mondays, but we could do away with &#8220;4th of July&#8221;, lesser known as <strong>&#8220;Independence Day&#8221;<\/strong>, since most of our <strong>&#8220;Independence&#8221;<\/strong> has been turned into dependence on our government to tell us how to walk, talk, think, eat, etc&#8230;..  For more details, listen to <strong>Frank Zappa<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m The Slime&#8221;<\/em> on the <strong><em>Over-nite Sensation<\/em><\/strong> album (also on <strong><em>Strictly Commercial<\/em><\/strong> album), and it came out in 1973!&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>So line-up my friends, for the show that never ends&#8230;.. decide which <em>&#8220;Fool&#8221;<\/em> you want to honor (it could be yourself), and let&#8217;s start a petition for a new National holiday (I&#8217;ll, of course, wait to hear what kind of responses I get from this post before I start a petition with my name of it&#8230;..  I&#8217;m no <em>&#8220;Fool&#8221;<\/em>)&#8230;&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hereby propose that we make &#8220;April Fool&#8217;s Day&#8221; a National holiday&#8230;.. You can celebrate the &#8220;Fools&#8221; that are in political office, or the &#8220;Fools&#8221; that put them there&#8230;.. I know this will cause problems with our current system of placing almost all of our National holidays on Mondays, but we could do away with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}