{"id":62,"date":"2008-10-27T19:32:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T01:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/62\/puttin-ritz\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T20:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T02:29:58","slug":"puttin-ritz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/puttin-ritz\/","title":{"rendered":"PUTTIN&#8217; ON THE RITZ!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My family&#8217;s always had an affinity for the film <a title=\"Young  Frankenstein on IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072431\/\"><em>Young Frankenstein<\/em><\/a> &#8212; we&#8217;d always get a laugh by saying &#8220;What knockers! \u00a0 Oh, thank you!&#8221;  or &#8220;Frau Blucher {horse whinny}&#8221;. \u00a0 I even caught myself mentally  referring to a kid dressed up like Frankenstein&#8217;s Monster as a &#8220;little  zipper-neck&#8221; at our ward party the other day.<\/p>\n<p>So it comes as no surprise to me that when Nathan started playing  with Audrey&#8217;s magic wand the other day, holding it in both hands and  bouncing it up and down in front of him, that the first thing that came  to mind was the song from the Monster&#8217;s debut: &#8220;If you&#8217;re blue and you  don&#8217;t know where to go to&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nathan holding a magic wand\" href=\"\/pictures\/254\/nathan-holding-magic-wand\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/2008_Nathan_Ritz.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan puttin' on the  Ritz\" width=\"400\" height=\"507\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Youtube - Puttin on the  Ritz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VH2nQHPs4aA\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/ritz.png\" alt=\"Puttin' on the Ritz\" width=\"480\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family&#8217;s always had an affinity for the film Young Frankenstein &#8212; we&#8217;d always get a laugh by saying &#8220;What knockers! \u00a0 Oh, thank you!&#8221; or &#8220;Frau Blucher {horse whinny}&#8221;. \u00a0 I even caught myself mentally referring to a kid dressed up like Frankenstein&#8217;s Monster as a &#8220;little zipper-neck&#8221; at our ward party the other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/puttin-ritz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PUTTIN&#8217; ON THE RITZ!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7,42],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","tag-baby","tag-nathan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}