{"id":1463,"date":"2010-07-12T19:18:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T02:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2013-09-17T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T21:39:38","slug":"for-the-love-of-paco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/for-the-love-of-paco\/","title":{"rendered":"For the love of Paco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nworiginals.com\/clams\/paco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatleft\" title=\"Your engagement\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paco.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>I love the internet.<\/p>\n<p>June 2009, I posted a picture of a <em class=\"b\">congratulations card <\/em>I found at Hallmark that I found very, very funny.  Several of you agreed that the &#8220;Paco&#8221; card was hysterical and we had a good laugh together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nworiginals.com\/clams\/paco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" title=\"Come to Omaha with Paco\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paco2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>And here is <em class=\"b\">another Paco card<\/em> for your viewing pleasure (click to view larger).<\/p>\n<p>Well, last week, someone new discovered the post&#8230;   and the new person just happens to know Paco (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richiegaona.com\/\" target=\"resource window\">Richie Gaona<\/a>) personally.  I was delighted, and responded.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was a <em class=\"b\">very entertaining flow of comments, <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/congratulations\/\">read them here<\/a>) from people who all know Paco\/Richie&#8230;  who happens to be a <em class=\"b\">real life trapeze artist.    Even Paco himself has left a comment!<\/em><em> (Yes, I can hear your collective gasp)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richiegaona.com\/\" target=\"resource window\">his site<\/a> to learn about him &#8211; and see videos of him, Mercedes and others flying through the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the internet. June 2009, I posted a picture of a congratulations card I found at Hallmark that I found very, very funny. Several of you agreed that the &#8220;Paco&#8221; card was hysterical and we had a good laugh together. And here is another Paco card for your viewing pleasure (click to view larger). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/for-the-love-of-paco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For the love of Paco<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}