{"id":171,"date":"2011-05-17T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/craig-fergusons-birthday-gift-to-us\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:02:09","slug":"craig-fergusons-birthday-gift-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2011\/05\/craig-fergusons-birthday-gift-to-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Craig Ferguson&#8217;s Birthday Gift to Us"},"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><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craig_Ferguson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Craig Ferguson\u2019s<\/a> birthday. He hosts a late night television talk show which I never see as I am long since asleep when it comes on. I know him as the nasty Nigel Wick on the fabulous Drew Carey Show of blessed memory.\n<p>A while back someone pointed me to a monologue he delivered on that late night talk show.<\/p>\n<p>I realized this is a true mensch.<\/p>\n<p>With a message for just about everyone of us\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-6630509691360602925?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Craig Ferguson\u2019s birthday. He hosts a late night television talk show which I never see as I am long since asleep when it comes on. I know him as the nasty Nigel Wick on the fabulous Drew Carey Show of blessed memory. 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