{"id":2704,"date":"2011-11-14T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/the_key_to_happ\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:36:07","slug":"the_key_to_happ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/the_key_to_happ\/","title":{"rendered":"The key to happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2011\/nov\/13\/john-waters-interview\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lunch with John Waters\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/Lunch-With-John-Waters-007.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I write about John Waters so often<\/strong> that I should probably just give him a subcategory of his own. He&#8217;s my hero, my inspiration, my favourite entertainer. How can I not file away the best bits from him that I come across? How can I not document our occasional interactions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2011\/nov\/13\/john-waters-interview\" >This interview from <i>The Guardian<\/i><\/a> is short, but an entertaining read as always. It has the ring of Waters starting the press junket for his Christmas tour (which I&#8217;ll see when it comes here), but it has a few details I haven&#8217;t known about before, and that&#8217;s a rare pleasure. The most charming one is that he&#8217;s a big fan of wine gums, since they are a favourite of mine. Kismet! Once again, I followed in his footsteps without knowing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write about John Waters so often that I should probably just give him a subcategory of his own. He&#8217;s my hero, my inspiration, my favourite entertainer. How can I not file away the best bits from him that I come across? How can I not document our occasional interactions? This interview from The Guardian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/the_key_to_happ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The key to happiness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","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=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70590,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions\/70590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}