{"id":5669,"date":"2011-01-24T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:26","slug":"day-74-assorted-posters-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5669","title":{"rendered":"Day 74 – Assorted Posters (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My little brother, Russ, continues to send things my way that he has found stashed away in our childhood home.\u00a0 Yesterday I picked up a large tube (which at one time – 30 years ago – held an assortment of fireworks) that he had dropped off for me and discovered a poster collection which I had long forgotten.\u00a0 There had to have been over 60 posters in that tube.\u00a0 It turned out to be a real window into my childhood.\u00a0 Melissa laughed at the view. Apparently, I had a real affinity for kittens as a child.\u00a0 My wife has no reason to tease me for all the kitten posters – it’s perfectly natural for a kid – even of the\u00a0male persuasion – to like pictures of fluffy, adorable kittens.\u00a0\u00a0After all, they are so fluffy … and adorable.\u00a0 My theory is that since I was allergic to\u00a0flesh and blood (and fur)cats, I had to settle for posters.\u00a0The Christmas kitten poster from Day\u00a010 was just the start.\u00a0 It had somehow gotten separated from the pack.\u00a0\u00a0In the tube, I found posters of kittens up a tree, kittens in a drawer, kittens on the phone, kittens with flowers, and kittens with fluffy, adorable puppies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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But, seriously,\u00a0it wasn’t just kittens – I had posters of horses, dogs with ducks, porcupines, prairie dogs, and chimpanzees (including one\u00a0dressed as a tennis player – nothing funnier than a monkey dressed as a human).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ida (age 7) thought the "Tree Little Kittens" caption was hilarious.\u00a0 He asked me, "Do you get it, dad??"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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I also had a 3-D poster of some skateboarders.\u00a0 I think it must have been one of my favorites because it was one of the most familiar looking poster I pulled out of that tube.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And apparently I once\u00a0considered Ziggy to be funny!<\/p>\n\n\n

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My boys were excited to see some vintage Star Wars posters in the mix – I’ll let them enjoy these for a while before they get thrown out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I bet even a tough, uber-macho\u00a0guy like\u00a0Darth Vader liked kitten posters as a kid…<\/p>\n\n\n

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My little brother, Russ, continues to send things my way that he has found stashed away in our childhood home.\u00a0 Yesterday I picked up a large tube (which at one time – 30 years ago – held an assortment of fireworks) that he had dropped off for me and discovered a poster collection which I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5675,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}