{"id":26913,"date":"2007-05-09T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/05\/09\/revelations-of-my-friends-an-ancestor-of-todays-mad-libs\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:00:01","slug":"revelations-of-my-friends-an-ancestor-of-todays-mad-libs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070509-01\/?p=26913","title":{"rendered":"Revelations of My Friends: An ancestor of today&#039;s Mad Libs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/weekendstubble.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/edwardian-mad-libs.html\"> Literary detective Paul Collins<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=7584979\"> stumbled upon a precursor to today&#8217;s Mad Libs<\/a> known as <i>Revelations of My Friends<\/i>. Listen to the NPR story to hear Scott Simon play, and go to Paul Collins&#8217; web site to see some of the drawing that Scott laughed at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary detective Paul Collins stumbled upon a precursor to today&#8217;s Mad Libs known as Revelations of My Friends. Listen to the NPR story to hear Scott Simon play, and go to Paul Collins&#8217; web site to see some of the drawing that Scott laughed at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Literary detective Paul Collins stumbled upon a precursor to today&#8217;s Mad Libs known as Revelations of My Friends. Listen to the NPR story to hear Scott Simon play, and go to Paul Collins&#8217; web site to see some of the drawing that Scott laughed at.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}