{"id":501,"date":"2006-04-04T22:38:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/04\/some-stories-just-write-themselves\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T22:38:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T02:38:23","slug":"some-stories-just-write-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/some-stories-just-write-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Some stories just write themselves&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I can&#8217;t really add anything to this. I mean, there&#8217;s something completely funny in each of the first three paragraphs of <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/04\/04\/people.jerrygarcia.ap\/index.html\">this story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police say the Grateful Dead leader&#8217;s commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia&#8217;s salmon-colored toilet was the subject of a legal battle before it was finally moved to Sonoma, to await shipment to a Canadian casino.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if the toilet was swiped by a wayward Deadhead or a thief remodeling a bathroom. Police said they have no suspects or leads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How much do you have to smoke in order for it to seem like a good idea to steal a toilet?<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/adistantsoil.com\/blog\/?p=310\">via<\/a>]<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">You know, I can&#8217;t really add anything to this. I mean, there&#8217;s something completely funny in each of the first three paragraphs of this story: Police say the Grateful Dead leader&#8217;s commode was stolen recently from a driveway along with three other toilets and a bidet. Garcia&#8217;s salmon-colored toilet was the subject of a legal battle before it was finally&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/some-stories-just-write-themselves\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-85","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}