{"id":477,"date":"2005-07-14T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2006-04-04T11:08:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T18:08:34","slug":"112138375328321386-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"112138375328321386"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/25736009\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" alt=\"bored club\" src=\"http:\/\/photos22.flickr.com\/25736009_1173390b21.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Internet, I knew it was going to be bad this summer, but they have created their own &#8216;bored club&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>My house is the &#8216;hang out&#8217; house. It was like that when I was a kid and I knew that my house would be that house when my kids got older. My house has become the headquarters for the &#8216;bored club&#8217; though.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/26002335\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Bored Club\" src=\"http:\/\/photos23.flickr.com\/26002335_9f8b9d9c11_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/26002348\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"laugh...\" src=\"http:\/\/photos23.flickr.com\/26002348_ff7e007712_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be a member you must be able to look bored while sitting on the couch, be able to play video games non-stop for 6 solid hours, strategically avoid doing any housework, know the temperature outside and be able to complain about it, use the excuse that any pool they could go to would &#8216;suck&#8217; anyway because it&#8217;s just too hot&#8230;oh, and you have to be able to build a fort like this:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/26002328\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"The Bored Fort\" src=\"http:\/\/photos21.flickr.com\/26002328_7891d71c0c.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I walked in to see THIS in my living room. I see the &#8216;little kids&#8217; hanging outside this contraption and as I am getting ready to ask them (clearing throat) &#8220;WHAT THE FUCK?&#8221; I hear the 3 fourteen year olds saying, &#8220;it would be perfect in here if we just had a fan and a waiter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you guys doing in there?&#8221; You have to ask this question when there are two 14 year old boys and one 14 year old girl under 7 large blankets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in our super, super, secret fort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That explains it all. I&#8217;m not too worried as the living room is like 4 steps away from where I am sitting right now, and besides the conversation going on is hysterical. They have reverted back to being 7 years old.<br \/>\n&#8220;Stop hitting me!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Your feet stink!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;OH NO, A PART OF THE FORT IS FALLING&#8230;QUICK!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m the president of this fort.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;No you&#8217;re not. If so I get to be the treasurer slash bouncer&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We have no money.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We need a name for our group.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I thought we were the bored club.&#8221;<br \/>\n*ROARING LAUGHTER*<br \/>\n&#8220;YOUR FIRED!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Fine, I quit. I&#8217;ll start a new fort!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;You can&#8217;t. We are out of blankets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/26002338\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"They are SO BORED!\" src=\"http:\/\/photos23.flickr.com\/26002338_60ce14f189.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re coming to BlogThis 2005 remember to bring a really big blanket.  I have an idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet, I knew it was going to be bad this summer, but they have created their own &#8216;bored club&#8217;. My house is the &#8216;hang out&#8217; house. It was like that when I was a kid and I knew that my house would be that house when my kids got older. My house has become the headquarters for the &#8216;bored club&#8217; though. To be a member you must be able to look bored while sitting on the couch, be able to play video games non-stop for 6 solid hours, strategically avoid doing any housework, know the temperature outside and be able to complain about it, use the excuse that any pool they could go to would &#8216;suck&#8217; anyway because it&#8217;s just too hot&#8230;oh, and you have to be able to build a fort like this: I walked in to see THIS in my living room. I see the &#8216;little kids&#8217; hanging outside this contraption and as I am getting ready to ask them (clearing throat) &#8220;WHAT THE FUCK?&#8221; I hear the 3 fourteen year olds saying, &#8220;it would be perfect in here if we just had a fan and a waiter.&#8221; &#8220;What are you guys doing in there?&#8221; You have to ask this question when there are two 14 year old boys and one 14 year old girl under 7 large blankets. &#8220;We are in our super, super, secret fort.&#8221; That explains it all. I&#8217;m not too worried as the living room is like 4 steps away from where I am sitting right now, and besides the conversation going on is hysterical. They have reverted back to being 7 years old. &#8220;Stop hitting me!&#8221; &#8220;Your feet stink!&#8221; &#8220;OH NO, A PART OF THE FORT IS FALLING&#8230;QUICK!&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m the president of this fort.&#8221; &#8220;No you&#8217;re not. If so I get to be the treasurer slash bouncer&#8221; &#8220;We have no money.&#8221; &#8220;We need a name for our group.&#8221; &#8220;I thought we were the bored club.&#8221; *ROARING LAUGHTER* &#8220;YOUR FIRED!&#8221; &#8220;Fine, I quit. I&#8217;ll start a new fort!&#8221; &#8220;You can&#8217;t. We are out of blankets.&#8221; If you&#8217;re coming to BlogThis 2005 remember to bring a really big blanket. I have an idea!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}