{"id":42078,"date":"2023-11-30T06:12:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=42078"},"modified":"2023-11-30T06:53:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:53:13","slug":"happy-birthday-joe-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/11\/30\/happy-birthday-joe-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Joe!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Joe’s card this year, I chose an interpretation of one of my childhood games – Mystery Date<\/strong><\/em>. If you’ve ever played it, you know that the dream date<\/em><\/strong> is wearing a white tuxedo and the dud<\/em><\/strong> is clad in dirty chinos and doesn’t own a comb.<\/p>\n

Happy birthday Dream Date!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Joe’s card this year, I chose an interpretation of one of my childhood games – Mystery Date. If you’ve ever played it, you know that the dream date is wearing a white tuxedo and the dud is clad in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1201,7,4],"tags":[41,2117,5767,2915,336],"class_list":["post-42078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collage-2","category-illustration","category-news","tag-collage","tag-joes-birthday","tag-milton-bradley-games","tag-mystery-date","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-aWG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15007,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/11\/30\/happy-birthday-joe\/","url_meta":{"origin":42078,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday Joe!","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"November 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This year's card is a take-off of the game Mystery Date for all you young bucks out there. 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