{"id":8885,"date":"2011-05-18T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:58:09","slug":"shake-them-pom-poms-cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/05\/18\/shake-them-pom-poms-cheerleaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Shake Them Pom-Poms, Cheerleaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Pom-Pom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/terribleminds\/364172114\/lightbox\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/142\/364172114_02383478d5_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you may know, once in a while I like to open up the Circus of Pimpage &#8212; I undo the ropes, open the tent-flaps, and let the drunken elephants in velvet robes and grill-mouthed clowns with ruby-encrusted pimp cups come tumbling out. (That sounds like a creepy sexual metaphor. I assure you, it is not.)<\/p>\n<p>What it is, then, is this:<\/p>\n<p>Some of you have projects out in the world: books, e-books, games, movies, comics, webcomics, blogs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Others among you have fallen in love with projects that are not your own &#8212; books by other authors, films few have seen, comics that remain undiscovered, blogs that demand eyeballs. Etc.<\/p>\n<p>So, drop down into the comments. Pop us a quick cheer and a link. Got something you&#8217;ve done or something you love? Let us know about it. Sometimes Twitter moves so fast I miss stuff. Or I think, &#8220;I should click that,&#8221; but then I forget to and next thing I know I wake up in an open grave just outside of Albuquerque and Lord knows I won&#8217;t remember <em>then<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it&#8217;s neat to have the pimping contained. Like a self-promotional tempest in a tea-cup.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you may be saying: &#8220;Chuck, this is you being lazy. It&#8217;s like you don&#8217;t have a <em>real post <\/em>for today.&#8221; To which I respond, &#8220;Duh.&#8221; That said, I still like the idea, so fuck it, I&#8217;m running with it.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell are you waiting for? You got the invite. RSVP already.<\/p>\n<p>You. Comments. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, once in a while I like to open up the Circus of Pimpage &#8212; I undo the ropes, open the tent-flaps, and let the drunken elephants in velvet robes and grill-mouthed clowns with ruby-encrusted pimp cups come tumbling out. (That sounds like a creepy sexual metaphor. I assure you, it is not. Button up your britches.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-8885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-otherwriters","8":"tag-writing","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9042,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}