{"id":2959,"date":"2002-08-29T07:58:05","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T12:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2002-08-29T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T12:58:05","slug":"tholiday_thursd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/29\/tholiday_thursd.html","title":{"rendered":"Tholiday Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/thursday\/archives\/002596.html#002596\">The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>1. You&#8217;re helping raise money for a charity, and someone pledges a very large contribution if you&#8217;ll perform, on stage, at the upcoming fund-raising show. There will be about 1,100 people in the audience. Would you be willing to perform? If so, what sort of act would you prefer to do?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Being an inveterate ham, I would not hesitate to perform, particularly for charity.  As for the type of act?  Heck, whatever they needed me to do.  Act, declaim, MC, sing (ahem), dance (God, I hope not).  Whatever.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. Have you ever cheated in a game (like a card game) for money?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even think of the last time I played a game for money.  Particularly a game I was not sure I would win.<\/p>\n<p><b>3. If you could go back in time and relive any moment in your life exactly as it happened, what event would you choose to experience again?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>My wedding to Margie.  It&#8217;s all a big blur, dagnabbit, as if I had my glasses off the entire time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[22,14,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-love-and-marriage","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134844,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/23\/look-truly-patriotic-act-allegiance.html","url_meta":{"origin":2959,"position":0},"title":"A look at a truly patriotic act of allegiance","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Sep-17 1:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Immigrants being nationalized swear an oath of allegiance, not to the flag, not to the military, not to the national leader, not to a cultural group or historical victory or nationalist value set or symbol or even to a vague \"United States.\" They swear an oath to the US Constitution.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/naturalization-ceremony.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":43828,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/charity-with-strings-attached.html","url_meta":{"origin":2959,"position":1},"title":"Charity with strings attached","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Jul-14 7:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's dubious when soup kitchens require attending a religious service in order be fed. \u00a0It's even sketchier when PeTA offers to pay for some Detroiters' water bills -- if the recipients of their largess go vegan for a month.True charity is not about quid pro quo. 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