{"id":9563,"date":"2018-02-18T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=9563"},"modified":"2018-02-18T16:46:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:46:25","slug":"our-2017-mad-lib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2018\/our-2017-mad-lib\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 2017 Mad Lib"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/news\/2016\/2016-mad-lib\/\">Yet again<\/a> this year, we are sending out a blank Mad Lib for the fun-loving among you to create your very own version of a Boyd holiday letter. But if you\u2019re curious about the official version, read on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoc.uspoc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7471_1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hoc.uspoc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/img_7471_1024-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-634\" \/><\/a> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>h2. Our 2017 Mad Lib<\/p>\n<p>This year, Rosie, age _____ (number), got a _____ (fictional creature) haircut. Lucy, age _____ (number), took a _____ (noun) class at the (same noun) Institute of _____ (city). The girls tried _____ (sport) for the first time. Ann knitted a _____ (garment) from yarn reclaimed from a sweater _____ (person) knitted _____ (number) years ago. Jon learned how to _____ (transitive verb) _____ (animal, plural). And in June, Jon and Ann heard _____ (letter) _____ (number) in concert.<\/p>\n<p>We wish you a _____ (adj.) Christmas and a happy _____ (n.)!<\/p>\n<p>h3. The factual version<\/p>\n<p>This year, Rosie, age 9, got a pixie haircut. Lucy, age 11, took an art class at the Art Institute of Chicago. The girls tried paddleboarding for the first time. Ann knitted a sweater from yarn reclaimed from a sweater her mother knitted 50 years ago. Jon learned how to shuck oysters. And in June, Jon and Ann heard U2 in concert.<\/p>\n<p>We [sincerely do] wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This is a duplicate of a <a href=\"https:\/\/hoc.uspoc.us\/2017\/2017-mad-lib\/\">version we published earlier at Hocus Pocus<\/a> (during a period when Boyds&#8217; Nest News was non-functional).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again this year, we are sending out a blank Mad Lib for the fun-loving among you to create your very own version of a Boyd holiday letter. But if you\u2019re curious about the official version, read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563","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=9563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9565,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9563\/revisions\/9565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}