{"id":800,"date":"2011-01-07T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-01-07T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:52:53","slug":"new-years-stunt-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Stunt in Michigan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/GRPR046.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-801\" title=\"GRPR046.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/GRPR046.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Press<\/em>, January 1, 2011<\/p>\n<p>The SciFi Network (yeah, I\u2019m a little chagrinned that I know this channel exists and a bit more that I know where to find it) was running a Twilight Zone marathon New Year\u2019s Day. The family watched a few. Some were scary. Some were pretty campy. But on the whole, they were much less scary and sickening than watching Michigan\/Michigan State football.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOne of my favorite Twilight Zones is called \u201c<a title=\"The Man in the Bottle\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_in_the_Bottle\" target=\"_blank\">The Man in the Bottle<\/a>.\u201d It\u2019s the one where a poor guy finds a bottle with a genie and is granted several wishes &#8212; each with unanticipated consequences. Pretty standard stuff, but the one that always gets me is when he wishes to be leader of a great nation with no chance of being voted out of office. Poof! He turns into Hitler in his Berlin bunker in the closing days of World War II. Can you imagine anything worse? Well, having to be Jennifer Granholm as Michigan governor these past eight years would be a close second\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>And as long as we\u2019re confessing, I\u2019d like you all to know that I watched most of \u201c<a title=\"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rebecca_of_Sunnybrook_Farm_(1938_film)\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm<\/a>\u201d on Christmas Day. Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott. I enjoyed it, thank you very much. Don\u2019t judge me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Press, January 1, 2011 The SciFi Network (yeah, I\u2019m a little chagrinned that I know this channel exists and a bit more that I know where to find it) was running a Twilight Zone marathon New Year\u2019s Day. The family watched a few. Some were scary. Some were pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}