{"id":931,"date":"2009-08-23T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:49","slug":"up-in-smoke-friday-august-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/up-in-smoke-friday-august-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Up In Smoke &#8211; Friday August 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jrfranklin\/3165089737\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-934\" title=\"3165089737_21560b2b42\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/3165089737_21560b2b42-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"3165089737_21560b2b42\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/3165089737_21560b2b42-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/3165089737_21560b2b42.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Do you have any idea where I can get that special smoke magicians use to appear and disappear?  I&#8217;m just wondering because I think it would be a really dramatic way to end meetings at work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Signed,<br \/>\nOutside The Box<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nDear Outside the Box,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Magic is the devil&#8217;s art so I would try your local satanic church or the satanic supplies store- like Walmart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 Actually I&#8217;m pretty sure that Walmart doubles as both a place of devil worship and a one-stop-shop for all your worshiping necessities.\u00a0 As evidence, please note that the attached photo shows a Walmart shopper celebrating the discovery of a camouflage Christmas stocking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nI admire the inclination to use any kind of black magic to end meetings at work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, &nbsp; Do you have any idea where I can get that special smoke magicians use to appear and disappear? I&#8217;m just wondering because I think it would be a really dramatic way to end meetings at work. &nbsp; Signed, Outside The Box &nbsp; Dear Outside the Box, &nbsp; Magic is the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/up-in-smoke-friday-august-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Up In Smoke &#8211; Friday August 21&#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-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}