{"id":4833,"date":"2009-12-25T08:49:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T13:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2009-12-25T23:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T04:41:49","slug":"madlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2009\/madlib\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 2009 Mad Lib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our 2009 Christmas card is out now, and it involves audience participation. It&#8217;s a Mad Lib. But do you want to know how we filled it in? Here&#8217;s the Boyds&#8217; version. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Christmas-Card-2009-300w.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Card 2009 300w\" title=\"Christmas Card 2009 300w\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Christmas-Card-2009-300w.jpg 300w, https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Christmas-Card-2009-300w-128x99.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p{color:gray}. Photo: This is our Christmas postcard for 2009, taken during our late-summer vacation in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>h3. A Boyd Holiday Mad Lib<\/p>\n<p>2009 has been a ______ (adj.) year for the Boyds. Lucy, age ______ (number), pretended to be a baby ______ (n.), while Rosie, age ______ (number), experienced a ______ (n.) explosion. Jon got a new ______ (n.), and Ann has been ______ (gerund) lots of ______ (pl. n.). We wish you a ______ (adj.) Christmas and a happy ______ (n.)!<\/p>\n<p>h3. The Factual Version<\/p>\n<p>2009 has been a big year for the Boyds. Lucy, age three, pretended to be a baby kitten, while Rosie, age one, experienced a language explosion. Jon got a new job, and Ann has been baking lots of treats. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>h3. Our Mad-Libbed Version<\/p>\n<p>2009 has been a sparkly year for the Boyds. Lucy, age 3.1415, pretended to be a baby refrigerator, while Rosie, age 42, experienced a whoopie-cushion explosion. Jon got a new Mack truck, and Ann has been chewing lots of dust bunnies. We wish you a stinky Christmas and a happy poodle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 2009 Christmas card is out now, and it involves audience participation. It&#8217;s a Mad Lib. But do you want to know how we filled it in? Here&#8217;s the Boyds&#8217; version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9976,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/9976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}