{"id":232,"date":"2010-04-01T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2010-04-01T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T13:48:00","slug":"april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"APRIL FOOLS&#8217; DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Times;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Perhaps we should consider April fools day as a national holiday. It has no religious or political implications; no group affiliation, universally accepted, blind to race, creed, nationality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Over the years I have read or seen some very creative stories created for April fools&#8217; day. My favorite continues to be the one the BBC broadcast more than 30 years ago now. &nbsp;The Lock Ness monster had been found dead. The British Museum of Natural History decided to bring it to London in a refrigerated truck for study. The Scots were literally up in arms that a national treasure such as &#8220;Nessy&#8221; would be taken out of Scotland, particularly by the English. Armed and angry Scotsmen manned a barricade at the border between Scotland and England to prevent the &#8220;national treasure&#8221; from being looted by the heathens from the south. &nbsp;This story continued throughout the day, with regular updates of the truck&#8217;s progress, and Scotch reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Perhaps we should consider April fools day as a national holiday. It has no religious or political implications; no group affiliation, universally accepted, blind to race, creed, nationality.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Over the years I have read or seen some very creative stories created for April fools&#8217; day. My favorite continues to be the one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">APRIL FOOLS&#8217; DAY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-fools-day","category-loch-ness-monster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}