{"id":6855,"date":"2007-11-16T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/unbreakable-son\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:50:37","slug":"unbreakable-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/16\/unbreakable-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbreakable Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>&nbsp;In the local grocery store at 7 a.m., I was picking up donuts with Ph. for his junior class bake sale, when J., the bakery manager, scolded us for putting the wrong donut order in our cart. 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Hugga Wugga, a revision of <a href=\"http:\/\/muppet.wikia.com\/wiki\/Sclrap-Flyapp\">Scrlap Flyapp<\/a> I learned this afternoon, shoots steam at others who don&#8217;t repeat his utterances.  His aggressive tactics backfire: blast-enforced <i>imitatio<\/i>, echo effects, fear-mongering, etc. Anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;In the local grocery store at 7 a.m., I was picking up donuts with Ph. for his junior class bake sale, when J., the bakery manager, scolded us for putting the wrong donut order in our cart. 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