{"id":1091,"date":"2014-12-18T20:19:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T01:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2014-12-18T20:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T01:19:08","slug":"creativity-breadcrumb-38-twas-the-millisecond-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/12\/18\/creativity-breadcrumb-38-twas-the-millisecond-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Breadcrumb 38: &#8216;Twas the Millisecond Before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_1091'] = [\n{id: 1092, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/12\/Screenshot.266738.100000.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/12\/Screenshot.266738.100000-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/12\/18\/creativity-breadcrumb-38-twas-the-millisecond-before-christmas\/screenshot-266738-100000\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Screenshot.266738.100000<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/12\/18\/creativity-breadcrumb-38-twas-the-millisecond-before-christmas\/screenshot-266738-100000\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<div id=\"attachment_1092\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1091\" data-imgid=\"1092\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/12\/Screenshot.266738.100000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1092\" class=\"wp-image-1092 \" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/12\/Screenshot.266738.100000.jpg\" alt=\"Image Credit: Microsoft\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/12\/Screenshot.266738.100000.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/12\/Screenshot.266738.100000-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Microsoft<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>mad lib<\/strong>\u00a0<em>n.\u00a0<\/em>a phrasal template word game where one player prompts others to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the &#8212; often comical or nonsensical &#8212; story aloud [1953]*<\/p>\n<p>Mad Libs is a very (<em>adjective<\/em>) game that lets (<i>noun, plural<\/i>) create (<em>adjective<\/em>) stories together. They can cover a\/an (<em>adjective<\/em>) range of topics such as Letters Parents Hope Get Lost in the Mail, Instructions For the Babysitter, and even\u00a0<em>The Brady Bunch<\/em>. This commercial holiday season, gather your (<em>adjective<\/em>) friends and come up with a (<em>quantity<\/em>) of nouns, adjectives, and body parts to complete the following online mad lib: &#8216;Twas the Night Before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinkworks.com\/crazytales\/c\/c11.shtml\">http:\/\/www.rinkworks.com\/crazytales\/c\/c11.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* being &#8220;that guy,&#8221; despite what the signs in the library say, and citing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_Libs\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mad lib\u00a0n.\u00a0a phrasal template word game where one player prompts others to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the &#8212; often comical or nonsensical &#8212; story aloud [1953]* <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/12\/18\/creativity-breadcrumb-38-twas-the-millisecond-before-christmas\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Creativity Breadcrumb 38: &#8216;Twas the Millisecond Before Christmas<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2579,"featured_media":1092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}