{"id":212,"date":"2017-08-08T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?p=212"},"modified":"2024-02-11T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T15:03:07","slug":"aunt-sally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/aunt-sally\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt Sally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is an English game called &#8220;Aunt Sally&#8221;.\u00a0 The object is to knock the head off a dummy with a ball or stick. The version I recall most clearly was at a school fete. Good-natured teachers would dress in a ridiculous costume and sit immobile in a chair,\u00a0while the public (including many pupils) would pay sixpence to throw sponges dripping with coloured goo at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For an author, listing\u00a0a book on Amazon is a literary version of Aunt Sally. The public pay their sixpence and they can throw anything at you. It doesn&#8217;t even have to be a wet sponge\u00a0\u2014 bricks, breezeblocks, poisoned barbs \u2014 all are acceptable. It would be churlish to respond; that is not how Aunt Sally works. Nevertheless, having one&#8217;s spiritual condition diagnosed and deprecated in public by a complete stranger is an odd experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an English game called &#8220;Aunt Sally&#8221;.\u00a0 The object is to knock the head off a dummy with a ball or stick. The version I recall most clearly was at a school fete. Good-natured teachers would dress in a ridiculous costume and sit immobile in a chair,\u00a0while the public (including many pupils) would pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-with-sidebar","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}