{"id":12657,"date":"2006-04-21T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T18:39:00","slug":"out-of-the-mouths-of-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Of The Mouths Of Babes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenakeeffe.com\/archives\/000029.html\" target=\"_blank\">Helena Keefe had an interesting idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&hellip;I put out an open call for people to write speeches for President Bush, offering a $50 cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>A group of five students, ages 7-10, from Rooftop Elementary in San Francisco accepted the challenge. Upon receiving their humorous and thoughtful contributions I had the speeches recorded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliedsilliness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Meskimen<\/a>, a professional impersonator based in Los Angeles. The prize money was used to throw a cake party for the kids and their classmates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The W impersonator is really good, but the (mostly unintentional) hilarity of the kids&rsquo; speeches makes him that much better&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/audio\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">audio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114564485702253447?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helena Keefe had an interesting idea: &hellip;I put out an open call for people to write speeches for President Bush, offering a $50 cash prize. A group of five students, ages 7-10, from Rooftop Elementary in San Francisco accepted the challenge. Upon receiving their humorous and thoughtful contributions I had the speeches recorded by Jim &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Out Of The Mouths Of Babes&#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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}