{"id":442,"date":"2006-02-26T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/02\/birthday-of-funk\/"},"modified":"2006-02-26T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T11:43:00","slug":"birthday-of-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/02\/birthday-of-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Of Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"


*Gerald, your local “Complete Discrete” electrical appliance salesman will be presenting you with the Deluxe version of the Blammo Anal Intruder 4000 \u00ae *<\/font><\/p>\n

This superb gift was sent by my old chum the Bike Stealer<\/a> this morning, along with a delightful musical comedy moment from Victor Borge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I share my birthday with Johnny Cash (we walk the line) Victor Hugo (we raise up the oppressed), Levi Strauss (we wear blue trousers) and Fats Domino (we found our thrill).<\/p>\n

Wikipedia also tells me<\/a> that on this day, 1797 – The Bank of England issued the first one-pound note, 1952 – United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that this nation had an atomic bomb, and 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.<\/p>\n

Plus, and as if that wasn’t enough, the One Thousand Bloggers<\/a> chaps have decided to make me blogger of the week, coming soon to a pixel near you. I am currently slot number 262.<\/p>\n

Thanks a lot, also, for the many kind messages comments and emails I received after writing about my recent misery. Last night I dreamed I lost my (long dead) dog – and in the process of searching for him, met up with three people whom I have not seen in years. It seems that they are still with me, these shades, past loves, and come to greet me once again in my sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

*Gerald, your local “Complete Discrete” electrical appliance salesman will be presenting you with the Deluxe version of the Blammo Anal Intruder 4000 \u00ae * This superb gift was sent by my old chum the Bike Stealer this morning, along with a delightful musical comedy moment from Victor Borge. I share my birthday with Johnny Cash […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}