{"id":344,"date":"2009-07-02T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-07-02T04:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T04:49:00","slug":"the-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time once more for <a href=\"http:\/\/mamakatslosinit.blogspot.com\/\">Mama Kat<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mamakatslosinit.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/your-assignment-should-you-choose-to_30.html\">Writer&#8217;s Challenge<\/a>. T<span>his time with special sauce and a prompt from yours truly. The prompts:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span>1.) Mother&#8217;s guilt&#8230;tell us what happened.<br \/>(inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/1momof5.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/not-me-monday.html?dsq=11948337#comment-11948337\"><span>Lolli<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>2.) Write five &#8220;Incredibly Short Books&#8221;. Some examples:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chemical Contraception Choices for Catholic Couples&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Teenage U.S. Presidents&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;The Book of Female Popes&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;The 2008 Book of General Motors Profits&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dan says, &#8220;The point is that the book is of zero size since the title is a contradiction with reality.&#8221;<br \/>(inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/theartofpanic.blogspot.com\/\"><span>Dan<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>3.) I&#8217;ll be happy when ________________.<br \/>(inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/tracypnothomeyet.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/lessons-from-my-garden-focus.html\"><span>Tracy P<\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>4.) Relay an interesting conversation you recently had with someone that may or may not involve creating a Loch Ness Monster Theme Park.<br \/>(inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/mimitchells.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/i-really-dont-know-what-to-say.html\"><span>Jen<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>5.) Show us something you made!<br \/>(inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/shhhhh.html\"><span>Janis<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>#1 &#8211; Mother&#8217;s guilt. <\/b>I have to leave this one unfilled since I am not a mother.  Besides, as we all know, fathers never suffer from guilt. {*grin*}<\/p>\n<p><b>#2 &#8211; Incredibly Short Books. <\/b>I am honored, nay tickled pink to have a prompt inspired by me. My must read list of Incredibly Short Books includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span> <i>Quantum Gravity for Dummies<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<li><i><span>The Pictorial History of Overweight Playboy Centerfolds<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span>Heart Healthy Deep Fried Food<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span>The Well Rested Newborn Parent<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span>The Ugly Plastic Surgeon<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>BTW, the idea of short books came from Indie 101.5 FM, an eclectic radio station out of the Denver area.<\/p>\n<p><b>#3 &#8211; I&#8217;ll be happy when &#8230;<\/b> I&#8217;ll be happy when the weather once more turns to the cooler nights of fall. I&#8217;ll be happy when I have a real job. I&#8217;ll be happy to see L tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>#4 &#8211; Interesting Conversation.<\/b> This morning as I was walking across the Wal-Mart parking lot to speak at the Grand Re-Opening after the remodel, I ran into a local attorney named Alex. I asked him what he was doing up at 8am for the gala. His reply: &#8220;Somebody good looking had to be invited to make up for all the rest of you people in attendance.&#8221; Think Alex might be just a little bit vain? One of the newspaper reporters couldn&#8217;t resist remarking, &#8220;If Alex spent as much time on law as he does on his appearance, he&#8217;d be on the supreme court by now.&#8221; It really is funny because Alex is not truly that vain, he just likes to cultivate that appearance.<\/p>\n<p><b>#5 &#8211; Something I made.<\/b> I made this little windmill a long time ago. It has set on top of my book case in the office here fo somewhere between 15 and 20 years, I looks somewhat like the one I remember from my grandparents farm in my childhood.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/Skw5WgZEdiI\/AAAAAAAAATk\/j6FNNeMzads\/s1600-h\/mvc-115f.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/Skw5WgZEdiI\/AAAAAAAAATk\/j6FNNeMzads\/s400\/mvc-115f.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time once more for Mama Kat&#8216;s Writer&#8217;s Challenge. This time with special sauce and a prompt from yours truly. The prompts: 1.) Mother&#8217;s guilt&#8230;tell us what happened.(inspired by Lolli) 2.) Write five &#8220;Incredibly Short Books&#8221;. Some examples: &#8220;Chemical Contraception Choices for Catholic Couples&#8221;&#8220;Teenage U.S. Presidents&#8221;&#8220;The Book of Female Popes&#8221;&#8220;The 2008 Book of General Motors Profits&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Incredible &#8230;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[164],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}