{"id":10302,"date":"2006-10-09T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/09\/10302.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:55:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:55:18","slug":"slide-charlie-brown-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/10\/09\/slide-charlie-brown-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"Slide, Charlie Brown, Slide!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know, I know, all you Gentle Readers were wondering, &#8220;OK, fine, he&#8217;s written about pundits, and lulavs, and novels, and he&#8217;s endorsed a bookstore, but when will Vardibidian write about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/exhibitions\/carstenholler\/photos.shtm\">180-foot slides<\/a>?&#8221; The answer: not soon enough. And, really, if some Gentle Reader wants to pay for YHB to take a quick trip to London to see the art&#8212;and let&#8217;s be clear, here, that the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/6034123.stm\">five-story spiral slides<\/a>, on which we can expect speeds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/galleries\/gallery-23360558-detail\/Tate+Modern%27s+giant+slides\/pos-5-image\/gallery.do\">30 miles an hour<\/a> are <I>art<\/I>&#8212;no, really, I&#8217;ve asked a professional art historian, and she said &#8220;who cares! Giant Slides! Wheeeeeeee!&#8221;&#8212;I will be happy to blog the experience, possibly with audio.\n<p>Or, I suppose, some Gentle Reader could just go and put it on their own damn blog. But what fun would that be? No, far better for me to go. Besides, it might be dangerous. And fun. And art. Did I mention that they look awfully pretty? And that even if one were to be a trifle ... cautious about the whole down-into-the-slide thing, one could just hang around and watch, and even that would be pretty damn cool?\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, all you Gentle Readers were wondering, \u201cOK, fine, he\u2019s written about pundits, and lulavs, and novels, and he\u2019s endorsed a bookstore, but when will Vardibidian write about 180-foot slides?\u201d The answer: not soon enough. And, really,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17833,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions\/17833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}