{"id":4538,"date":"2012-02-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2012-02-13T20:41:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:41:18","slug":"speaking-of-the-vd-pj-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/speaking-of-the-vd-pj-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of the VD PJ Parties &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those were the days, my friends. The <em>Valentine\u2019s Day Pajama Party<\/em>: was there another anywhere? (Besides the Playboy Mansion.) Could it have been so original and unique? It might be misleading to describe the intent of three twenty-something males as innocent, yet the modern mind, smutted-up by advertising and all the dreck around us, cannot conceive that degree of innocent interaction. To us, they were wild times; looking back, they were more mild than wild. But such great fun to dance with abandon, to cavort and frolic and flirt. Yes, those were the days. (To which I pay fond tribute but have no desire to return to. This is not nostalgia, just timely recollection.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/DSC05704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Valentine&#39;s Day\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Valentine&#39;s Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/DSC05704_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/DSC05705.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Valentine&#39;s Day\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Valentine&#39;s Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/DSC05705_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have many invitations, including the years we had concurrent&#160; parties in Albuquerque and Alexandria. But I don\u2019t have that very first invitation. Does anyone?<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 194px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: url(https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left 50%; height: 194px\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/104986271495850826426\/ValentineSDayPajamaPartyInvitations?authuser=0&amp;feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 1px 0px 0px 4px\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-R6ld03MGqi4\/TzmeuW4xZ-E\/AAAAAAAAF7k\/m9c5NIEpYWw\/s160-c\/ValentineSDayPajamaPartyInvitations.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px\">More <a style=\"color: #4d4d4d; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/104986271495850826426\/ValentineSDayPajamaPartyInvitations?authuser=0&amp;feat=embedwebsite\">Valentine&#8217;s Day Pajama Party Invitations<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those were the days, my friends. The Valentine\u2019s Day Pajama Party: was there another anywhere? (Besides the Playboy Mansion.) Could it have been so original and unique? It might be misleading to describe the intent of three twenty-something males as innocent, yet the modern mind, smutted-up by advertising and all the dreck around us, cannot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/speaking-of-the-vd-pj-parties\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking of the VD PJ Parties &hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}