{"id":7597,"date":"2011-04-13T23:29:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T06:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=7597"},"modified":"2014-09-08T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:37:07","slug":"busy-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=7597","title":{"rendered":"Busy Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went to our golf class at 9:00 at El Dorado and then to lunch at Old Ranch in preparation for golf.\u00a0 Sue loved today at the club becuase we saw many baby ducks.<\/p>\n<p>In 2002, psychologist Richard Wiseman and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, finished a year-long LaughLab experiment, concluding that of all animals, ducks attract the most humor and silliness; he said &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to tell a joke involving an animal, make it a duck.&#8221; The word &#8220;duck&#8221; may have become an inherently funny word in many languages possibly because ducks are seen as silly in their looks or behavior. Of the many ducks in fiction, many are cartoon characters like Donald Duck, who appeared in a Walt Disney film for the first time on 9 June 1934, and Daffy Duck, who appeared in Warner Brothers films.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7598\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7598\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7598\" title=\"Baby Ducks April 2011 at Old Ranch\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0050.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0050-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_0050-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue has them all named already!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After a bit of happy hour, we headed to home to feed the babies and then off to the <a href=\"http:\/\/teaparty405-605.org\">405\/605 Tea Party held at Leisure World<\/a>.\u00a0 We do the briefings and take photos of the activities.\u00a0 Reverend Jesse Lee Petersen spoke this evening&#8230;\u00a0 An amazing person!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/teaparty405-605.org\"><strong>Please join us<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7599\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teaparty405-605.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7599\" title=\"tea-party-patriots-405-605-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tea-party-patriots-405-605-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tea-party-patriots-405-605-logo.png 424w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tea-party-patriots-405-605-logo-141x150.png 141w, https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tea-party-patriots-405-605-logo-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Time for a Tea Party<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to our golf class at 9:00 at El Dorado and then to lunch at Old Ranch in preparation for golf.\u00a0 Sue loved today at the club becuase we saw many baby ducks. In 2002, psychologist Richard Wiseman and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=7597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,4],"tags":[41,143,10,14,29,75],"class_list":["post-7597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-wine","category-friends","category-fun","tag-dining-out","tag-friends","tag-golf","tag-old-ranch","tag-special-events","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16840,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7597\/revisions\/16840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}