{"id":16082,"date":"2009-10-25T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16082"},"modified":"2009-10-30T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:02:35","slug":"a-really-big-shew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/a-really-big-shew.html","title":{"rendered":"A really big shew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we had a &#8220;Talent Show Dinner&#8221;&nbsp;down at Good Shepherd&#8211; which turned into quite an extravaganza, pulling in about 140 people, which was about twice as many as I thought would attend.<\/p>\n<p>I got to MC the affair for the most part, which was fun, if a bit challenging (as I&#8217;m generally awful with names), and we had a karaoke contest, a talent show, some professional singing, and a bit of joke telling.<\/p>\n<p>I regaled the crowd with a rendition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JKbd_Ajkex0\">Tom Lehrer&#8217;s <em>Irish Ballad<\/em><\/a>, which was well-received (even among those who&#8217;d never heard of Tom Lehrer (egad!).<\/p>\n<p>We also started out with a spaghetti sauce competition, which I oversaw, and which Margie judged in. 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I got to MC the affair for the most part, which was fun, if a bit challenging (as I&#8217;m generally awful with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/a-really-big-shew.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A really big shew&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,42,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-media-music","category-religion-my-parish"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9409,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/laugh_comrade_l.html","url_meta":{"origin":16082,"position":0},"title":"Laugh, comrade! 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