{"id":1137,"date":"2008-10-01T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/10\/01\/iz-mai-birfday\/"},"modified":"2008-10-01T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:22:00","slug":"iz-mai-birfday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/10\/01\/iz-mai-birfday\/","title":{"rendered":"iz mai birfday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought there would be more lolcats on this subject<\/a>, but I guess it’s a bit common.<\/p>\n

Today is also former President\/peanut farmer Jimmy Carter’s birthday. I recall with unusual lucidity a moment from my childhood, when some friends and I were playing with a wind-up toy that was a peanut with Jimmy Carter’s face–like the Planters mascot<\/a>, but with eyebrows, nose, and teeth clearly caricatured to resemble President Carter.<\/p>\n

The thing I remember most vividly is our discussion of what to name this toy. Should he be “Jimmy Peanut?” Or “Peanut Carter?” Even then, over twenty years ago, I was concerned with nomenclature. It’s the details that reveal character.<\/p>\n

Now I’m off to have some fun. I leave you with this thought:<\/p>\n

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It’s a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”
— Jimmy Carter<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many happy returns of the day.<\/p>\n

~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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