{"id":55627,"date":"2015-04-20T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T07:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=55627"},"modified":"2015-04-20T00:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T07:09:31","slug":"fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55627","title":{"rendered":"Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHere&#8217;s a <em>fun<\/em> word &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>funambulist<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s someone who has a great sense of fun?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55629 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Mardi_Gras_Cocktails_Anyone.jpg\" alt=\"Mardi_Gras_Cocktails_Anyone\" width=\"360\" height=\"496\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s someone who makes a study of fun? (Now there&#8217;s a great job!)<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s someone who thinks their particular skill or hobby is just plain fun?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55628\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55628\" class=\"wp-image-55628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Chaschina_Irina_1.jpg\" alt=\"Chaschina_Irina_1\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irina Tchachina by Deerstop via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I sure hope so, because a funambulist is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>a tightrope walker!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55631\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55631\" class=\"wp-image-55631\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/429px-Sells_Floto_Circus_presents_Mlle_Beeson_a_marvelous_high_wire_Venus_performance_poster_1921.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"503\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Circus poster for Sells Floto Circus showing tight-rope walker Mlle. Beeson prancing with a parasol.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not only do funambulists have a sense of fun, they also have nerves of steel. For example, funambulist Jay Cochrane set a world record in 1998 when he walked a distance of 800 feet between the towers of the Flamingo Hilton in Las Vegas,\u00a0300 feet above the city known for fun, and he did it &#8230; blindfolded.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready to be amazed by this very talented funambulist from Ukraine&#8217;s Got Talent:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/krm34mHrcL4?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a fun word &#8230; funambulist Maybe it&#8217;s someone who has a great sense of fun? Maybe it&#8217;s someone who makes a study of fun? (Now there&#8217;s a great job!) Or maybe it&#8217;s someone who thinks their particular skill or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}