{"id":2721,"date":"2006-09-19T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T08:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/18\/avast-ye-mateys\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T08:22:40","slug":"avast-ye-mateys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Avast ye mateys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6030\/445\/1600\/CAPT_HOOK_PIRATE_6FT.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6030\/445\/200\/CAPT_HOOK_PIRATE_6FT.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Arrr! That&#8217;s right, it be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/\">International Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a>, possibly the silliest idea ever. But admit it: You&#8217;re dyin&#8217; t&#8217; drink some grog and tell someone t&#8217; go walk the plank. This silliness be about pop culture pirates, ye see, not the bloody an&#8217; brutal pirates that still sail the seas t&#8217;day.<\/p>\n<p>Pop culture pirates, it be true, are surely the gimpiest people ever. Eye patches, hook hands, peg legs, and those terribly awkward hats. Why that be, I&#8217;ve no idea. Anyone?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Crossposted at <a href=\"http:\/\/thegimpparade.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/avast-ye-mateys.html\">The Gimp Parade<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrr! That&#8217;s right, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, possibly the silliest idea ever. But admit it: You&#8217;re dyin&#8217; t&#8217; drink some grog and tell someone t&#8217; go walk the plank. This silliness be about pop culture pirates, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disabled-rights-issues","category-mind-blowing-miscellania-and-other-neat-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}