{"id":1160,"date":"2009-10-22T08:39:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T15:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:48","slug":"wednesday-october-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wednesday-october-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloon Boy’s 15 Minutes 14:45 Too Long – Wednesday October 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2316096647_ae10909f6d\"<\/a>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n

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What do you think about the balloon boy incident? I followed the story with great interest that entire day, but once found out the parents had already been on Wife Swap I got suspicious. <\/p>\n

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\nPlus, who has a balloon strong enough to carry their child away just sitting around in their yard? <\/p>\n

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Signed,
\nNice Try<\/p>\n

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Dear Nice Try,<\/p>\n

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\nI never actually thought the little kid was in the balloon, because what the hell kind of Mylar balloon can carry off a six year old? Then later some one told me that weather balloons are designed to carry like 60 pounds of equipment. But since I didn’t know that at the time, I assumed it was a sham. <\/p>\n

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\nTurns out I was right- not because of the science I assumed I understood but because the family was a weirdo reality television family. I loved how every time a news person would ask the little kid what he meant when he said “we were doing it for a show” he would barf. It would be useful if all humans had that quality. I mean it would be gross, but it would out a lot of liars and cheaters. <\/p>\n

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\nI’m a sympathetic barfer though, so I guess I’d be worried that I’d always be barfing in the presence of liars, thus falsely implicating me as a liar. On the other hand, I could prove to people that I was telling the truth by not puking when asked about being a sympathetic puker. So, I think I’d be safe.<\/p>\n

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\nSincerely,
\nPoor Lucky Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Poor Lucky Me,   What do you think about the balloon boy incident? I followed the story with great interest that entire day, but once found out the parents had already been on Wife Swap I got suspicious.   Plus, who has a balloon strong enough to carry their child away just sitting around … Continue reading “Balloon Boy’s 15 Minutes 14:45 Too Long – Wednesday October 21st”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}