{"id":293,"date":"2006-02-01T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2006-02-01T11:57:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T11:57:32","slug":"fave-america-pix-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Fave America Pix: #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Alligator and the Guru<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.apocalypse.gen.nz\/america\/08guruaaron.jpg>08guruaaron.jpg, 97K<\/a><br \/>\nThis is Aaron &#8216;Alligator&#8217; Andrews, our man in Seattle.  We met in Portugal in &#8217;02 and instantly hit it off.  When I visited him on his home turf in September last year, we dropped in on one of his regular bars, where I met a great bunch of people and played some amusing pool.<br \/>\nA highlight of the evening was finding a stack of very dubious vinyl in a corner, and coming across the outstandingly cheesy cover image for the Guru Josh album &#8220;Infinity (1990s&#8230; Time for the Guru)&#8221;.  Here, Aaron gives his best rendering of the Guru&#8217;s cover pose.<br \/>\nYeah, this image is in here simply because it makes me laugh out loud every time I see it.  Share the love, baby.<br \/>\nHey &#8211; anyone ever heard of Guru Josh?  I&#8217;d love to actually hear some of his music, although I suspect it&#8217;d be more properly referred to as &#8220;music&#8221;.<br \/>\n(Incidentally, Aaron&#8217;s now perhaps the only person in North America with a copy of Cow, that silly and fun card game by <a href=http:\/\/sarumata.blogspot.com\/>Matt<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/deb-onair.blogspot.com\/>Debz<\/a>.  You reading, Matt and Debz?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alligator and the Guru 08guruaaron.jpg, 97K This is Aaron &#8216;Alligator&#8217; Andrews, our man in Seattle. We met in Portugal in &#8217;02 and instantly hit it off. When I visited him on his home turf in September last year, we dropped in on one of his regular bars, where I met a great bunch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fave America Pix: #8<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-4J","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}