{"id":192,"date":"2008-09-07T21:59:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T01:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2009-05-06T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T21:12:44","slug":"ysac-vol-xvi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"YSAC, Vol. XXVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>Parade Float Castle &#8211; FREE<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Have an upcoming parade? We built this castle for a &#8220;candyland&#8221; themed parade. It is light-weight (made of tissue and chicken wire) and built on pallets for easy lifting to your trailer or wagon. It stands a little over 6&#8242; tall and about 5 feet wide. Hoping someone can use&#8230;it was a first place winner! If you pick up up&#8230;.it&#8217;s yours!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-192 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?attachment_id=190'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/26b-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?attachment_id=191'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/26a-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nWait &#8230; if someone buys a pre-made parade float, how are they going to do the obligatory montage scene in the movie? You know the one &#8212; first you show the kids hard at work on the float, then you show the clumsy kid knocking something over and everyone laughing with (not at) him &#8230; then you show the hero and heroine conveniently working on the same part of the float, and something cute happens and they both smile and fall in love instantly &#8230; someone decorates something differently than what they&#8217;re supposed to and everyone comes over and looks at them disapprovingly but lovingly &#8230; and all the while, a catchy, peppy rock song is playing in the background. At the end, everyone collapses in exhaustion onto their impossibly perfect float, with flowers and sawdust impeccably placed in their hair to make them look adorable.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, you can&#8217;t just BUY a parade float &#8230; you have to <em>montage<\/em> one. Everyone knows that.<\/p>\n<p>Also: Why is Santa dressed as the Pope of Candyland?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parade Float Castle &#8211; FREE Have an upcoming parade? We built this castle for a &#8220;candyland&#8221; themed parade. It is light-weight (made of tissue and chicken wire) and built on pallets for easy lifting to your trailer or wagon. It stands a little over 6&#8242; tall and about 5 feet wide. Hoping someone can use&#8230;it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1996,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}