{"id":263,"date":"2009-04-16T14:46:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:52","slug":"thursday-april-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-april-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really like to know more about the Pinata.  What is it&#8217;s historical and cultural origins?  What is your favorite Pinata?  Would it be weird to fill a pinata with miniature liquor bottles and weed?  Do you capitalize Pinata or not?  Have you noticed that the ones you buy now-a-days have a breaking point built in?  Don&#8217;t you think that&#8217;s a bit crap?<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>I Love Pinatas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear I Love Pinatas,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not weird to fill anything with miniature liquor bottles, including the trunk of your car or your underpants.\u00a0 In fact, I would call that an admirable hyper preparedness.\u00a0 I have waited in many lines and at many red lights wishing I had my glove compartment full of\u00a0 liquor bottles.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I just have never been able to get my life together enough to be that organized.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway, pinatas are a magical and historically significant revelry item.\u00a0 Their exact origins are unknown, but the most common theory is that the Chinese invented the pinata and Marco Polo brought it to Europe and the Spanish missionaries brought it to Mexico.\u00a0 Five years ago I would have believed that, but I no longer believe in the Euro-centric perspective of history.\u00a0 Therefore I must outright reject such claims, even if they are scientifically based or logical or proven correct.\u00a0 I would prefer to think that they were invented as an Aztec calendar.<\/p>\n<p>One should not capitalize pinata, and I have noticed they have a breaking point built in.\u00a0 That is totally bullshit- it takes all the fun out of really beating the thing into the ground.\u00a0 Now you just take a few drunken wacks at the head and it splits open.<\/p>\n<p>You know what I say though?\u00a0 Alls well that ends in a shower of candy\/booze\/mana from the heavens.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<br \/>\nPoor Lucky Me <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, I&#8217;d really like to know more about the Pinata. What is it&#8217;s historical and cultural origins? What is your favorite Pinata? Would it be weird to fill a pinata with miniature liquor bottles and weed? Do you capitalize Pinata or not? Have you noticed that the ones you buy now-a-days have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-april-16th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday, April 16th&#8221;<\/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-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}