{"id":93,"date":"2008-05-28T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T21:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/newblog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2008-05-28T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T21:54:48","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Even better than kitten huffing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is even better than <a href=\"http:\/\/uncyclopedia.org\/wiki\/Kitten_huffing\" target=\"_blank\">Kitten Huffing<\/a>! In the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia, is an annual festival to mark the Catholic feast of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corpus_Christi_%28feast%29\" target=\"_blank\">Corpus Christi<\/a>. As part of this festival is the rite of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baby_jumping\" target=\"_blank\">baby jumping<\/a>, in which the men dress up in costumes as the devil and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7419655.stm\" target=\"_blank\">leap over rows of babies<\/a> in order to ward off the devil! You read that right &#8211; real, live, human babies, in rows, on a mattress. And you jump over them!<\/p>\n<p>Wow, move over kitten huffing, this has my vote for the next new Olympic sport! I can see it now, &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, he&#8217;s broken the world record and cleared 9 rows of babies! Sadly, we&#8217;d setup 10 rows, but he takes the gold home anyway!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Oh! And what a great slogan it could have: <em>Baby Jumping: Now there&#8217;s a sport you can really sink your feet into!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is even better than Kitten Huffing! In the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia, is an annual festival to mark the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi. As part of this festival is the rite of baby jumping, in which the men dress up in costumes as the devil and leap over rows of babies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}