{"id":1023,"date":"2017-10-27T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/blog\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2020-07-07T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:12:24","slug":"uncle-george-is-alive-and-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Uncle George is alive and well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now and then something will happen that we find to be just plain funny.  This is one of those moments.<\/p>\n<p>Our friend, Pastor Stanley Mohr had ordered a puppet which we had shipped to him several days ago.<br \/>\nWe just got this note from him that &#8220;Uncle George&#8221; had arrived safe and sound, however the rest of the story will be best told by Brother Stan. . . . Here is the email we received from him. . .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UncleGeorge1\" src=\"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/wp_jetpup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/unclegeorge1.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Brother Steve,<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted you to know the package arrived yesterday.  Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>The lady who delivers the mail pulled her van into the driveway and stepped out with the box in hand.  I met her and said, \u201cI see you have Uncle George!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She got a startled look on her face and said, \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d<br \/>\nI repeated, \u201cI see you have Uncle George.\u201d  I then pointed to the return address label which read Dummy Shoppe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She then got a relieved look on her face and notified me that she occasionally delivers cremains! (-:<\/p>\n<p>God bless,<\/p>\n<p>Stan<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>. . . As you can see . .  there is never a dull moment at The Dummy Shoppe.<\/p>\n<p>We will talk again next week.<\/p>\n<p>Steve and JET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now and then something will happen that we find to be just plain funny. This is one of those moments.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-puppets","category-ventriloquism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedummyshoppe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}