{"id":265,"date":"2005-08-09T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T13:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2005-08-09T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T13:30:29","slug":"shhh-wanna-buy-a-letter-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/shhh-wanna-buy-a-letter-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhh. Wanna buy a letter &#8220;O&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All this talk of the good old days prompted me to investigate Sesame Street further. There&#8217;s a pretty good <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sesame_Street\">Wiki entry<\/a> about it, but check out this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesame-encyclopedia.com\/\">character encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shhhhhh. Hey, bud. Wanna buy an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesame-encyclopedia.com\/Alphabet\/SesameL\/Lefty.html\">invisible ice cream cone<\/a>?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_LeftyThumb.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Lefty\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/li>\n<li>I love how the customer at Grover&#8217;s restaurant is just called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesame-encyclopedia.com\/Alphabet\/SesameF\/FatBlue.html\">&#8220;Fat Blue&#8221;<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_FatBlueThumb.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Fat Blue\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and some more favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someday I hope to have eyebrows\/hair like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesame-encyclopedia.com\/Alphabet\/SesameB\/BipBipadotta.html\">this guy<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_BiBipadotta.jpg\" width=\"96\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Bip\" class=\"centered\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>The first time I witnessed masochism was with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesame-encyclopedia.com\/Alphabet\/SesameD\/DonMusic.html\">Don Music<\/a>. After that, I had slight fear of composers, and a particularly strong dislike for Randy Newman.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_DonMusicThumb.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Don Music\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s not forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesame-encyclopedia.com\/Alphabet\/SesameC\/LittleChrissy.html\">this guy<\/a>, who, I believe, is responsible for <em>The Telephone Rock<\/em>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_LittleChrissyThumb.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"130\" alt=\"Little Chrissy\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your favs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this talk of the good old days prompted me to investigate Sesame Street further. There&#8217;s a pretty good Wiki entry about it, but check out this great character encyclopedia. Both favorites: Shhhhhh. Hey, bud. Wanna buy an invisible ice cream cone? I love how the customer at Grover&#8217;s restaurant is just called &#8220;Fat Blue&#8221;: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}