{"id":299,"date":"2004-06-09T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=299"},"modified":"2004-06-09T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T21:35:00","slug":"sam-and-the-jackalope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2004\/06\/09\/sam-and-the-jackalope\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam and the Jackalope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Another Chat with the sis<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Me:I wasn&#8217;t planning to give them (Mom &#038; Dad&#8217;s fancy wine glasses) to you at the wedding itself. I was planning that as part of the shower gift. See at the wedding I was planning to present you with a Jackalope<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: ahh ok right<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: or would you prefer a moose head?<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam says: um&#8230;how about none<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: I could probably get you a moose head rather than the Jackalope although I bet I could find both on ebay<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: and then you die<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: OH&#8230; c&#8217;mon&#8230; it&#8217;s all part of the fun memory of planning your wedding&#8230;what better way to remember everything about your wedding than a Jackalope adorned with daisies&#8230;.in an exact replica of your wedding dress.<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: no<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: you are NO FUN AT ALL<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: that&#8217;s right<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: how about a gnome?<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: ok gnomes are cool<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: so a gnome dressed up like a jackalope adorned with daisies in an exact replica of your wedding dress is OK?<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: take out the jackalope and that is fine<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: a gnome dressed up like a moose?<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: no a gnome dressed like a gnome<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: but that&#8217;s not the same&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: that&#8217;s ok<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: it doesn&#8217;t have the wild animal flavor that you were going for in a reception hall<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: the reception hall is very nice no animals at all<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: you could use it as a cup holder.. we could have it taxidermed to have it&#8217;s hand out and it could hold your glass&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: if you do that i&#8217;ll be angry<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: but it&#8217;d be funny and memorable<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: no<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: totally unlike all other weddings<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: yeah i dont want that<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: and it&#8217;d be a fun way to remember planning your wedding&#8230;you could display the jackalope in your livingroom and be like&#8230; remember planning our wedding&#8230; all those places with the dead animals<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: I dont need one to remember that<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: but it&#8217;d be cute&#8230;cuz the Jackalope would be dressed up in daisies and a wedding dress&#8230;or a tuxedo maybe&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: ok don&#8217;t be suprised if an invitations doesn&#8217;t come in the mail for you<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: LOL<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: why are you laughing?<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: cuz its amusing&#8230; how angry you get just at the thought of it<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: its not amusing<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: you seriously can&#8217;t take a joke&#8230;you need to lighten up a bit&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: um&#8230;you should know that I can&#8217;t take a joke&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: yes I do know&#8230; but I thought in your old age you may have matured beyond that.<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: I&#8217;m still the baby HELLLOO<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: most babies are able to take a joke&#8230;and laugh&#8230;.<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: no<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: just picture how stupid, tacky and silly a jackalope in a wedding dress, festooned with daisies and it&#8217;s hand out like a cup holder would be&#8230;. it&#8217;d make even the Pope laugh<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: Nick would laugh<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: Nick would invite me<br \/>\n<br \/>Sam: Nick would be mad<br \/>\n<br \/>Me: no he&#8217;d laugh&#8230;.cuz the sight would make him laugh&#8230;.then you&#8217;d glare at him and he&#8217;d snicker and hold it in and give me a fake frown<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Chat with the sis Me:I wasn&#8217;t planning to give them (Mom &#038; Dad&#8217;s fancy wine glasses) to you at the wedding itself. I was planning that as part of the shower gift. See at the wedding I was planning to present you with a Jackalope Sam: ahh ok right Me: or would you prefer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}