{"id":340,"date":"2007-06-07T21:58:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T01:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/dance_magic_tupperware_dance"},"modified":"2013-11-18T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:14:50","slug":"dance_magic_tupperware_dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2007\/06\/dance_magic_tupperware_dance.html","title":{"rendered":"Dance, Magic Tupperware Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know all those stories about Fairyland or the Netherworld or The Kingdom of the Goblins? Where if you manage to get lost there and stay too long, you end up transforming into a permanent resident?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xAAGh-3sw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, in most of these stories the hero or heroine escapes the foul clutches of the goblins. Or on rarer occasions, they get rescued by their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000124\/\">extraordinarily hot and determined older sister<\/a>. But what if nobody <em>ever<\/em> managed to escape? What if the lost souls just kept piling up over the years? What would the Goblin King do then?<\/p>\n<p>Leftover party Tupperware is almost exactly like this.<\/p>\n<p>After holding regular Sunday summer barbecues for several years, I have managed to accumulate quite a motley assortment of kitchen items. The rule seems to be that if the person claims the item in the next few weeks, all is well. But if that doesn&#8217;t happen, the item somehow morphs into &#8220;my stuff&#8221;, whether I want it to or not.<\/p>\n<p>So I offer this plea: People! My cupboard of Tupperware barely closes at this point! Fine as your accoutrements may be, I honestly don&#8217;t need any more of them. My home is officially <em>closed<\/em> to your unwanted Tupperware, bowls, serving implements, shot glasses, and &#8212; this should really go without saying &#8212; boxes of frozen inedible shrimp!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pumpkin&#8221; &#8220;ale&#8221; in <em>any<\/em> season is <em>right out<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The Goblin King hath spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But what if nobody *ever* managed to escape? What if the lost souls just kept piling up over the years? What would the Goblin King do then? Leftover party Tupperware is almost exactly like this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}