{"id":628,"date":"2006-01-27T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T12:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2006-01-27T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T12:26:56","slug":"the-great-zucchini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/the-great-zucchini\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Zucchini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why I started reading this article on the Washington Post, and about halfway through I realized I couldn&#8217;t stop reading.  The Great Zucchini is the top children&#8217;s entertainer in the Washington area, but his life is a shambles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a superbly written article, a very interesting and heartwarming subject.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/18\/AR2006011801434_pf.html\">Read it now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I actually left me a little misty-eyed, I&#8217;m not ashamed to say.  Tragic clown figure, and all that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea why I started reading this article on the Washington Post, and about halfway through I realized I couldn&#8217;t stop reading. The Great Zucchini is the top children&#8217;s entertainer in the Washington area, but his life is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/27\/the-great-zucchini\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-a8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}