{"id":386,"date":"2010-03-06T17:31:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T17:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2010\/03\/06\/silly_walks\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T17:31:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T17:31:46","slug":"silly_walks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2010\/03\/06\/silly_walks\/","title":{"rendered":"silly walks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another wonderfully ridiculous event, ironically organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soscities.org\/\">Boston Society of Spontaneity<\/a>. This time we gathered outside the shopping center at the Prudential to learn about the event: each of us was asked to develop a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ministry_of_Silly_Walks\">silly walk<\/a>, a la Monty Python, and then spend a few minute practicing it. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/lis_project_365\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/IMG_2070-2463.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkercat.org\/lis_project_365\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/IMG_2070-thumb-512x384-2463.jpg\" alt=\"March 6 2010\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"384\" width=\"512\" \/><\/a><br \/>Then, about 5-10 people at a time, we went into the Pru with a simple instruction: just wander around and shop, doing your silly walk. And so we did. My friend Anthony and I got several reactions, ranging from funny looks and muttered comments, to one woman who flat-out asked us what was going in. The best was the guy who turned to us on the escalator and said, in an exaggerated accent. &#8220;Ah! Will you be applying for a position at the Ministry of Silly Walks, then? Might I suggest that you could make your walk a bit sillier by occasionally stopping in mid-step, like this? Ah, yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great fun. And, I might add, a good workout. I look forward to Pillow Fight Day&#8230; <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another wonderfully ridiculous event, ironically organized by the Boston Society of Spontaneity. This time we gathered outside the shopping center at the Prudential to learn about the event: each of us was asked to develop a silly walk, a la Monty Python, and then spend a few minute practicing it. Then, about 5-10 people at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2010\/03\/06\/silly_walks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">silly walks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}