{"id":11,"date":"1996-08-11T21:12:18","date_gmt":"1996-08-11T21:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/callico_calliop\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:48:19","slug":"callico_calliop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/callico_calliop\/","title":{"rendered":"Callico Calliope!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/scrap_0025.jpg\" alt=\"Tube Cat\" width=\"100%\" height=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston. July 4. Summer of 1990. <\/strong>These flyers were littered all over Boston\u2019s Back Bay neighborhood. Mark, Ed, Joe, and Dave were walking around with me when we discovered this impassioned plea for the return of this lost kitty. Passionate or not, we still generated a full three-hour assortment of jokes trying to figure out exactly what the hell the deal was with the cat and the tubes. \u201cIt\u2019s the kitty calliope!\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s the cat who can be played like a bagpipe!\u201d \u201cThe tubes must be for draining precious brain fluid so that the cat doesn\u2019t take over the house once and for all!\u201d I can barely remember all the material, but the image is so potent, it can still reduce any of us to tears of laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston. July 4. Summer of 1990. These flyers were littered all over Boston\u2019s Back Bay neighborhood. Mark, Ed, Joe, and Dave were walking around with me when we discovered this impassioned plea for the return of this lost kitty. Passionate or not, we still generated a full three-hour assortment of jokes trying to figure out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/callico_calliop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Callico Calliope!&#8221;<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrahistorical","category-ultrascrapbook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71287,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/71287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}