{"id":682,"date":"2006-04-17T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=682"},"modified":"2006-04-17T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T19:45:23","slug":"talk-about-a-career-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/talk-about-a-career-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk About a Career Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As any parent of children aged 2-6 years or so knows, <a href=\"http:\/\/nickjr.co.uk\/shows\/blues\/index.aspx\">Blue&#8217;s Clues<\/a> is actually one of the better shows around for kids.  I like it (ahem) for the kids of course because it&#8217;s pretty simple and non-abrasive to parents.  That&#8217;s a very very important factor, folks.  It also tends to use one long continuous shot instead of a lot of editing, which seems to make it more interesting to younger kids.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, all that aside, the whole point of this rather rambling post is to remind you of Steve.  Remember Steve?  He was the original host, kinda had a startling resemblance to Pee Wee Herman?  (Maybe that was just me.)  Anyway, a few years back Steve left the show, for parts unknown, to be replaced by another dude.  So, apparently in case you were wondering what happened to Steve, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steveswebpage.com\/index.html\">Steve is now an indie rocker<\/a>.  Or rather, he used to be a couple of years back, that&#8217;s the most recent entry on his blog. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Burns\">all is not lost<\/a> according to the all-powerful Wikipedia.   Wow, and weird.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue's_Clues\">More Blue&#8217;s Clues<\/a> for the new parent or the truly bored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As any parent of children aged 2-6 years or so knows, Blue&#8217;s Clues is actually one of the better shows around for kids. I like it (ahem) for the kids of course because it&#8217;s pretty simple and non-abrasive to parents. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/talk-about-a-career-change\/\">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-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}