{"id":3710,"date":"2016-07-01T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2016-07-02T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T20:05:58","slug":"independence-day-and-mystery-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=3710","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day…and mystery codes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 4th of July is an anniversary of sorts for me.\u00a0 What seems like several lifetimes ago a 12 year old version of myself entered a July 4th Talent contest, and stood up in front of several hundred people to perform a stand up comedy routine.\u00a0 Why did I attempt this? I have no idea.\u00a0 I wrote the routine myself, and recall looking at the cover of a Bill Cosby record (on of my inspirations…AT THE TIME…NOT KNOWING ANYTHING WE KNOW NOW.) and thinking that in a few hours I’ll find out if I can actually write comedy, or if I’m just a stupid kid leaving in a fantasy world.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The correct answer was both.\u00a0 The crowd at a talent contest is actually a good test for doing stand up elsewhere.\u00a0 They are uninterested, and skeptical, partially drunk, and somewhat beligerant. They are there to see their kid, or relative, or buddy and don’t give a rats ass about anyone else who goes up onstage.\u00a0 Most of the performers where\u00a0 singers or baton twirlers or I don’t even remember what..I was busy up in my own head making sure I remembered my routine.\u00a0 The bottom line is there was a collective “huh?” when the MC announce me as a stand up comedian.\u00a0 Turns out I could write comedy.\u00a0 It did very well and got a huge round of applause.\u00a0 Took second place, won…I don’t even remember what…a gift certificate maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest is history.\u00a0 Award nominations for Arsenic Lullaby, work appearing in Mad Magazine and on Comedy Central….you know all the rest.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, every year I mark the day with a sale and stuff like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve been in a funk lately, Kinda wish I never started any of this.\u00a0 I get in those funks from time to time, It passes.\u00a0 Maybe the annual marking of this day will jump start me out of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyways…THIS year, all weekend I’ll have news and previews and a coupon code contest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s how it works.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the online store right now…are two coupon codes. one for 40% off and one for 50%off.\u00a0 Those are big ass discounts.\u00a0 Here’s the thing, you have to guess what they are.\u00a0 I will reveal ONE of them on the 4th.\u00a0 So you can wait until then…or see if you can guess.<\/span><\/p>\n

Go to the online store, pick what you want, when you get to the checkout, enter your guess.\u00a0 No you don’t get charged until after the part where you enter the code, so if you guess wrong , you can try again or wait until one of the codes is revealed here.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll give you some hints.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

40% off code – 8 letters and describes the imperialist oppressors from the revolutionary war<\/span><\/p>\n

50% off code- 5 letters and is unique to George Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you signed up for our email list, you’ll be getting more hints sometime today.<\/span><\/p>\n

more updates all weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

ONLINE STORE<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 4th of July is an anniversary of sorts for me.\u00a0 What seems like several lifetimes ago a 12 year old version of myself entered a July 4th Talent contest, and stood up in front of several hundred people to perform a stand up comedy routine.\u00a0 Why did I attempt\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}