{"id":2021,"date":"2008-07-04T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2008-11-08T18:36:41","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T00:36:41","slug":"bozo-the-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/news\/bozo-the-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"Bozo the Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most normal people, I don&#8217;t care too much for clowns. Thanks, Pennywise. <\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, my thing with clowns goes way back. I remember being a really small kid and having this Bozo the Clown doll that had a drawstring you could pull and he&#8217;d laugh maniacally, like something out of a nightmare. He was soft and squeezable everywhere except his head, which was made of hard plastic. Hundreds of curly red hairs sprouted from his skull.<\/p>\n<p>I remember being tormented by that doll, and my family laughing every time his crazy laughing would send me into frightened fits.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the TV show, though. Especially the part where the kids had to stand at the line and throw little white balls into little red (or were they blue?) buckets.<\/p>\n<p>Weird to think that the Bozo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/entertainmentNews\/idUSN0330716520080704\" target=\"_blank\">who died today<\/a> created an army in his likeness. <\/p>\n<p>Sweet dreams, kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most normal people, I don&#8217;t care too much for clowns. Thanks, Pennywise. Seriously, though, my thing with clowns goes way back. I remember being a really small kid and having this Bozo the Clown doll that had a drawstring you could pull and he&#8217;d laugh maniacally, like something out of a nightmare. He was soft and squeezable everywhere except his head, which was made of hard plastic. Hundreds of curly red hairs sprouted from&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-wB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}