{"id":132,"date":"2005-04-07T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/132"},"modified":"2005-04-08T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T21:00:48","slug":"sesame-street-25-of-my-favorite-memories-progressive-boink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/132","title":{"rendered":"Sesame Street: 25 Of [Someone&#8217;s] Favorite Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveboink.com\/archive\/sesamestreet.html\">Sesame Street: 25 Of My Favorite Memories &#8211; Progressive Boink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this on BoingBoing,   and it made my heart sing with joy. Especially since I had a conversation about the &#8220;loaf of bread,  container of milk, &#038;  stick of butter&#8221; skit with a certain <a href=\"http:\/\/jakemohan.net\">friend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know, my old dream job was working for Sesame Street. Somehow it got derailed after AmeriCorps when my 3\/4&#8243; Umatic TV skills were totally useless after missing the tipping point of digital editing. (Not that I wouldn&#8217;t rock at it now &#8211; I&#8217;ve played with an Avid, and I know what&#8217;s up.)<\/p>\n<p>The point is that for a long time, working for Sesame Street <em>was<\/em> my dream job, and even though I have a new dream job<a href=\"#1\">&#8225;<\/a>, I&#8217;ll always love that freaking show.<\/p>\n<p>My all-time favorite bit was the Pinball Song. I was nonplussed by Oscar the Grouch. I loved Grover, and therefore resented Elmo. There was a bit called &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/Tiny_Dancer\/teeny.html\">Teeny Little Super Guy<\/a>&quot;, which was a, well, little guy painted on a glass, and he lived in a kitchen. My brother would put the hoop to our foam basketball pole on his head, and dance around as we sang &quot;teeny little super guy, pops right up before your eye&quot;. Oh, what? I shouldn&#8217;t hav divulged that? Oh. I&#8217;m sorry. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"1\"><\/a>&#8225;My new dream job is to work as a librarian for Celebrity Cruises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sesame Street: 25 Of My Favorite Memories &#8211; Progressive Boink I found this on BoingBoing, and it made my heart sing with joy. Especially since I had a conversation about the &#8220;loaf of bread, container of milk, &#038; stick of butter&#8221; skit with a certain friend. For those who don&#8217;t know, my old dream job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-sonya-fact"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}