{"id":18450,"date":"2017-02-24T23:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18450"},"modified":"2017-02-24T23:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:44:56","slug":"speaking-of-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18450","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, as I was walking home, I encountered a bubble man in Washington Square Park.  But what is a bubble man?<\/p>\n<p>A bubble man, in this context, is a guy who creates giant bubbles.  These are beautiful ephemeral sculptures.  They exist for a few seconds, and then they are gone.<\/p>\n<p>I stoode there, in rapt attention, as he created one beautiful bubble after another.  Then I asked, somewhat shyly, whether I could try my hand at it.<\/p>\n<p>The man graciously handed me the bubble making apparatus, and then I was off and running.  I created one beautiful bubble after the other, throwing each new creation out into the unsuspecting air.<\/p>\n<p>Each bubble lasted for only a few seconds, but that was sufficient &#8212; that was enough.  So herein below, for your edification, is a photographics record, for all time, of yours truly, Ken the bubble man.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ken_the_bubble_man.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, as I was walking home, I encountered a bubble man in Washington Square Park. But what is a bubble man? A bubble man, in this context, is a guy who creates giant bubbles. These are beautiful ephemeral sculptures. They exist for a few seconds, and then they are gone. I stoode there, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaking of bubbles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18456,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450\/revisions\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}