The other night while we were watching Wheel of Fortune, our nightly pre-dinner ritual, I misinterpreted A_O_T_ON.\u00a0 “Abortion!” I shouted, as Donna shouted “Adoption,” and of course Donna turned out to be right, because Vanna and Pat would never subject us to controversy or unpleasantness.\u00a0 But wouldn’t it be fun if they did?\u00a0 Just imagine . . . the contestant ahead of you spins out on Bankrupt . . . suddenly it’s your turn . . . STE_ CE__ RESE_RC_ . . . I’d like to solve, Pat!<\/p>\n
Or Jeopardy . . . can’t you just hear Alex saying, “This round’s categories are Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Murderous Dictators, Things You’d Find in Used Kleenex, Household Poisons, and Corrupt Government Officials.”\u00a0 How much fun would that<\/em> be?<\/p>\n Hey, I can dream, can’t I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other night while we were watching Wheel of Fortune, our nightly pre-dinner ritual, I misinterpreted A_O_T_ON.\u00a0 “Abortion!” I shouted, as Donna shouted “Adoption,” and of course Donna turned out to be right, because Vanna and Pat would never subject us to controversy or unpleasantness.\u00a0 But wouldn’t it be fun if they did?\u00a0 Just imagine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}