{"id":2001,"date":"2010-08-01T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2010-08-01T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T15:23:03","slug":"our_little_girl_is_all_grown_u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/01\/our_little_girl_is_all_grown_u\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Little Girl Is All Grown Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So did you hear about that fabulous, multi-million-dollar celebrity wedding happening this weekend? What? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/07\/31\/chelsea.wedding\/index.html?hpt=C2\">Chelsea<\/a> who? No, no, I&#8217;m talking about Lisa Simpson! One of my Facebook friends pointed out that today is the big day for Bart&#8217;s little sis:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"simpsons_lisa_wedding-invitation.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/simpsons_lisa_wedding-invitation.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holy crap, does time fly. Seems like only yesterday we were living in a world without wristwatch communicators, picture phones, and humanoid robots whose heads spontaneously burst into flame and melt down like cheap candles in front of a blowtorch. Hey, wait a minute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Seriously, it does give me a strange feeling to think that the real-world calendar has caught up to one of <i>The Simpsons<\/i>&#8216; &#8220;future episodes,&#8221; which seemed so funny and so far away when they first aired. I imagine the cognitive dissonance I&#8217;ll be experiencing five years from now &#8212; 2015 was, of course, Doc and Marty&#8217;s destination at the end of <i>Back to the Future<\/i> &#8212; will probably leave me in a corner of the room, rocking back and forth and muttering to myself about parallel dimensions and curves in the spacetime continuum&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So did you hear about that fabulous, multi-million-dollar celebrity wedding happening this weekend? What? Chelsea who? No, no, I&#8217;m talking about Lisa Simpson! One of my Facebook friends pointed out that today is the big day for Bart&#8217;s little sis: Holy crap, does time fly. Seems like only yesterday we were living in a world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}