{"id":1136,"date":"2006-12-23T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2006-12-23T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T08:52:00","slug":"courier-colloquies-darndest-things-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/courier-colloquies-darndest-things-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Courier&#8217; Colloquies: Darndest Things Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year at Christmastime, the heads of editors at small newspapers swell with one delightful notion: Children writing copy and filling a whole extra section (cushioned, of course, with plenty of holiday advertising) with their silly blatherings.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a winning tradition, and I&#8217;m not being sarcastic. It is seriously such fun to read the natterings of six-year-olds, all of whom are so cotton-picking cute and delusional that you can sit there and imagine what their lives must be like, based entirely on what they tell the newspaper they want for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>So, in the interest of spreading holiday amusement, here are some of the more interesting vignettes from this week&#8217;s <i>Savannah Courier<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><b>The Slightly Scary:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/320322\/xmasmorganx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/87226\/xmasmorganx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Sweet:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/459807\/xmaskellyx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/462176\/xmaskellyx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/563126\/xmasautinx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/292474\/xmasautinx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Sad:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/187405\/xmaslucasx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/604716\/xmaslucasx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/484531\/xmasmatthewx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/379709\/xmasmatthewx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Star Wars obsessed:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/907963\/xmasaustinx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/115827\/xmasaustinx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/759804\/xmaszachx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/820067\/xmaszachx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Insane:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/126904\/xmascameronx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/407341\/xmascameronx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The Diabolical:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/1600\/863592\/xmasalexx.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1248\/288\/400\/857859\/xmasalexx.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year at Christmastime, the heads of editors at small newspapers swell with one delightful notion: Children writing copy and filling a whole extra section (cushioned, of course, with plenty of holiday advertising) with their silly blatherings. It&#8217;s a winning tradition, and I&#8217;m not being sarcastic. It is seriously such fun to read the natterings of six-year-olds, all of whom are so cotton-picking cute and delusional that you can sit there and imagine what their&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}