{"id":2458,"date":"2007-09-14T20:16:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T00:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2007-09-14T20:17:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T00:17:43","slug":"funny-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/09\/14\/funny-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>Michael,<br \/>\n<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>One of the first things we noticed after coming to Boulder (Jan\/2007) was the wealth of non-traditional and funny-named businesses. I&#8217;ve been collecting names and photos (and sometimes web pages) for 7 months now.  There are a couple of businesses\/buildings I&#8217;m not sure the purpose of, and I included one that is completely obscure.<br \/>\n<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>I divided the businesses up into 3 categories:<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>The first category is a bunch of businesses with similar or rhyming names.  Click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version. The second is numerical&#8211; 1 This, 2 That, etc. Clicking on the thumbnail shows a big slide.The third category is whimsical or outrageous names. Try to guess what the business is from the thumbnail before clicking and getting the answer.  You may be surprised!<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ed.schmahl.org\/FunnyBusiness\/FunnyBusiness.html\" title=\"Funny Business\" target=\"_blank\">Funny Business<\/a><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>&#8211;rakkity<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael, One of the first things we noticed after coming to Boulder (Jan\/2007) was the wealth of non-traditional and funny-named businesses. I&#8217;ve been collecting names and photos (and sometimes web pages) for 7 months now. There are a couple of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/09\/14\/funny-business\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rakkity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}