{"id":1122,"date":"2010-12-31T23:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2010-12-31T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T05:05:18","slug":"2011-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"2011 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My continuing series of yearly predictions must&#8230;um&#8230;continue. Time to look ahead to 2011.<\/p>\n<p>1. President Obama&#8217;s administration will make another foreign policy gaffe by offering the Dali Lama a stuffed dolly llama. <\/p>\n<p>2. The Hula Hoop diet will be the newest weight loss fad after paparazzi captures Oprah giving one of the hoops a try at a Toys R Us outside Galveston. <\/p>\n<p>3. The Funky Bunch will try to launch a reunion tour, but it will fail when Marky Mark refuses to reprise his fronting role. <\/p>\n<p>4. The Caribbean island of Aruba will freeze over when Al Gore decides to hold a Global Warming rally there in July.<\/p>\n<p>5. The success of &#8220;Dancing with the Stars&#8221; and &#8220;Skating with the Stars&#8221; will inspire a new series -&#8220;Hot Tubbing with the Stars.&#8221; The show will fail to gain an audience because the only &#8220;Stars&#8221; who agree to go on the show will be Elliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford. <\/p>\n<p>6. Reality shows will continue to display a total lack of reality. <\/p>\n<p>7. The press will continue to report any rise or stagnation of unemployment as &#8220;unexpected.&#8221; It will be the drinking game of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>8. Steve Jobs will create a new product that no one needs now, but everyone will think they need after it hits the market. Something along the lines of an ultra thin Easy Bake Oven&#8230;without any buttons. <\/p>\n<p>9. Health nuts will hold rallies against &#8220;Big Tobacco&#8221;, during which many of the rally participants will also be holding signs to legalize pot. <\/p>\n<p>10. The Denver Broncos will hire a new coach for $5 million per year, while ignoring the fact that I would do the job for half of that.<\/p>\n<p>What a year it will be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My continuing series of yearly predictions must&#8230;um&#8230;continue. Time to look ahead to 2011. 1. President Obama&#8217;s administration will make another foreign policy gaffe by offering the Dali Lama a stuffed dolly llama. 2. The Hula Hoop diet will be the newest weight loss fad after paparazzi captures Oprah giving one of the hoops a try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=1122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2011 Predictions&#8221;<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}