{"id":35,"date":"2008-05-15T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-05-15T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:52:12","slug":"paparazzi-play-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Paparazzi Play Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent trip to California, in Santa Monica (west of Los Angeles), on their \u201cPromenade\u201d of special shops near the beach, they had a toy shop with various toys, including those little sets of toy soldiers or medieval knights. What struck me was a set of these little figures titled \u201cPaparazzi Play Set.\u201d It had about eight tiny photographers in various postures! Both amused and a little horrified, I was reminded of the saying about Hollywood (near where I was raised), that underneath all that phony tinsel is <em>real<\/em> tinsel! I wondered how kids might play Britney or Lindsey or Paris or whichever young celebrity is in the news lately, and how aside from their own entourage are also the paparazzi. Funny? Sad? Whatever\u2014it seemed a sign of the times worth noting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent trip to California, in Santa Monica (west of Los Angeles), on their \u201cPromenade\u201d of special shops near the beach, they had a toy shop with various toys, including those little sets of toy soldiers or medieval knights. What struck me was a set of these little figures titled \u201cPaparazzi Play Set.\u201d It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}