{"id":4262,"date":"2010-11-22T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T09:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/11\/there-is-no-room-in-the-free-world-for-hats-shaped-like-birds.html"},"modified":"2010-11-22T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T09:07:00","slug":"there-is-no-room-in-the-free-world-for-hats-shaped-like-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/11\/there-is-no-room-in-the-free-world-for-hats-shaped-like-birds.html","title":{"rendered":"There is no room in the free world for hats shaped like birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I went to one of my boys\u2019 events last week.\u00a0 One of the mothers in attendance was wearing a large hat shaped like a turkey.\u00a0 There was nowhere to sit but beside her.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t concentrate on the event because of that stupid hat.\u00a0 Had she acted silly, or goofy, or something, it wouldn\u2019t have been that bad.\u00a0 But she sat there, serious, watching her own children perform, almost unaware of the fact that she had a large turkey on her head.\u00a0 There\u2019s simply no reason for that.\u00a0 No article link or story. 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