{"id":1898,"date":"2008-12-17T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vu2057.freddie.1984.is\/siggimustest\/2008\/12\/700\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:57:00","slug":"700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/2008\/12\/17\/700\/","title":{"rendered":"700"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>on the bus for work this morning, siggimus was joined by about 700 noisy little kindergarten hellraisers on an excursion<\/p>\n<p>700 i tellya!! at least!!!<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s not the first time siggimus encounters such an invasion by the little folk, but never before in these numbers. for a few mins they just kept pouring in through the door, with their rosy cheeks &amp; noisy squeaks &amp; raising hell all over. first batch was a little over 550 (rough estimate, gave up counting after 308), but at next stop a few more of the little critters poured in, ending up with a heap three deep<\/p>\n<p>reading the newspaper with wilco&#8217;s <i>a ghost is born<\/i> loud in his ears, siggimus attempts to ignore the squeaking little rats, but is quickly surrounded &amp; nearly buried alive in fleece-hatted-creatures. soon he notices that the brats sitting behind him are reading the paper over his shoulder. well, dunno about &#8220;reading,&#8221; but they looked intently &amp; one even looked irritated when siggimus turned a page. maybe wasn&#8217;t finished looking at some picture<\/p>\n<p>noticing that his stop was coming up, siggimus broke a little sweat &amp; near-panicked, worrying he was trapped in this sea of snotty-nosed hyperactive chaos. packed newspaper &amp; got ready to get up &amp; pleaded passionately with 3 little ones in the seat next to him to let him pass. they did &amp; siggimus began the journey through the pile toward the door<\/p>\n<p>an excellent swimmer, siggimus made it to the door in the nick of time &amp; managed to get out with little incident. some 17 rascals popped out as siggimus exited, but siggimus threw most of them back in &amp; held while the doors were closing<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">from siggimus.blogspot.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the bus for work this morning, siggimus was joined by about 700 noisy little kindergarten hellraisers on an excursion 700 i tellya!! at least!!! it&#8217;s not the first time siggimus encounters such an invasion by the little folk, but never before in these numbers. for a few mins they just kept pouring in through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/scQPg2-700","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}