{"id":321,"date":"2005-06-09T22:20:33","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T06:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2005-06-09T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2005-06-10T06:22:11","slug":"another-stupid-meme-blame-graumagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/another-stupid-meme-blame-graumagus\/","title":{"rendered":"Another stupid meme! Blame Graumagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frizzensparks.com\/archives\/001082.html\">Frizzen Sparks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s the most interesting thing you set fire to when you were a kid?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, what we set fire to isn&#8217;t interesting, but the fire was. It was getting on toward the 4th the year I turned 11 I think, when my stepbrother Josh pulled a boner and took one of those &#8220;Dancing Flame&#8221; fireworks (the ones that spin really fast and burn different colors) and threw it up into the air after he lit the fuse.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the thing took off and flew into the field across the street, landing at the base of a pine tree, immediately setting the wonderfuly dry grass alight. We managed to get a hose on it before it got out of control, but it left a ring of singed grass in a perfect 20-foor diameter circle centered on that tree (which survived).<\/p>\n<p>It looked like a UFO had tried to use the tree as a landing stanchion.<\/p>\n<p>Later that same summer, though, we discovered the joys of lighting those little green army men on fire. If you get them burning on a board and then lift the board, little flaming droplets of plastic drip off and make a really neat noise as they fall.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is what kids do for fun when you raise them in the sticks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Frizzen Sparks: What&#8217;s the most interesting thing you set fire to when you were a kid? Well, what we set fire to isn&#8217;t interesting, but the fire was. It <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/09\/another-stupid-meme-blame-graumagus\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}