{"id":7,"date":"1996-08-11T21:05:39","date_gmt":"1996-08-11T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/a_boys_best_fri\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T14:46:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T19:46:37","slug":"a_boys_best_fri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/a_boys_best_fri\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boy\u2019s Best Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/jesus.gif\" width=\"50%\" height=\"421\" align=\n\"right\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Scoutmaster Jesus\"><strong>My friend Eileen,<\/strong> known for her eagle eye when it comes to the subtleties of Americana, found this small prayer card for me at a religious statue and souvenir shop in downtown Boston. She instantly knew that I would see the wonderful inherent wackiness of this combination of Jesus, Boy Scouts, and a vision of St. George slaying the dragon. You figure out the semiotics.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Eileen, known for her eagle eye when it comes to the subtleties of Americana, found this small prayer card for me at a religious statue and souvenir shop in downtown Boston. She instantly knew that I would see the wonderful inherent wackiness of this combination of Jesus, Boy Scouts, and a vision of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1996\/08\/11\/a_boys_best_fri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Boy\u2019s Best Friend&#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-7","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\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71285,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/71285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}