{"id":828,"date":"2017-08-01T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=828"},"modified":"2017-08-01T09:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:00:06","slug":"the-mime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"The Mime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mime-95.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-829\" src=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mime-95-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mime-95-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mime-95-768x1156.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mime-95-680x1024.jpg 680w, http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mime-95.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a>Book Excerpt<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mime <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I tried to interview several of these snooty &#8216;French&#8217; creatures before the government started rounding them up with the &#8216;Muslims.&#8217;\u00a0 I could neither distract, nor get a peep out of one, they ignored every question with expressionless contempt.\u00a0 When I finally stormed off in righteous indignation, I tripped on an invisible rope and chipped a tooth on the edge of an invisible box&#8230;while their silent laughter danced up and down my spine.\u00a0 There aren&#8217;t too many mimes around any more (&#8217;cause they&#8217;re A-holes) but John likes them.<\/p>\n<p><em>***This one\u00a0is part of a whole section of work\u00a0nixed from my\u00a0&#8220;Bludgeon the Clown&#8221; book\u00a0by the editors at EEW Books.\u00a0 It saddens me but still makes a good blog post.\u00a0 -Marsha\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Excerpt The Mime I tried to interview several of these snooty &#8216;French&#8217; creatures before the government started rounding them up with the &#8216;Muslims.&#8217;\u00a0 I could neither distract, nor get a peep out of one, they ignored every question with expressionless contempt.\u00a0 When I finally stormed off in righteous indignation, I tripped on an invisible &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/?p=828\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mime<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242,125,109],"tags":[210,105,128,176,99,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}