{"id":573883924,"date":"2012-09-21T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883924"},"modified":"2012-09-24T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T08:21:08","slug":"college-town-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/college-town-atmosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"College town atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we saw a tiger. Some weeks we go see the raptors fly. There’s not much to beat a college town during the fall, and precious few are as great as Auburn. The town is full of great atmosphere, and the night before a game you can feel the buzz work its way under your skin. Every small town has their wonderful and unique personalities. We get that plus lots of visitors and lots of athletics. The fall is a special time.<\/p>\n

These are the football gameday buttons from last week:<\/p>\n

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This week’s say Sad Hatter, in honor of LSU’s Les Miles, who has been dubbed a mad hatter. See? Wordplay.<\/p>\n

There’s also the joke about LSU fans and corn dogs<\/a>. Four years ago I saw this as we walked into the stadium:<\/p>\n

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Tonight, though, while dining out with a friend who’s returned to town for the weekend we saw this creation from Dr. Magical Balloons<\/a> at Niffer’s:<\/p>\n

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Jeremy wrote about this<\/a> tonight. Already it is the third return on Google when searching “Balloon guy Auburn, AL.”<\/p>\n

A few more examples of his work can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Someday I’ll shoot a video interview with him. “Recreate your most unusual request. Fastest trick in your bag. Can we play stump the balloonist?”<\/p>\n

What would stump a balloon bender?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week we saw a tiger. Some weeks we go see the raptors fly. There’s not much to beat a college town during the fall, and precious few are as great as Auburn. The town is full of great atmosphere, and the night before a game you can feel the buzz work its way under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-auburn","category-friday","category-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573883924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883932,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883924\/revisions\/573883932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}