{"id":879,"date":"2014-03-31T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2014-03-31T13:46:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:46:51","slug":"all-fools-day-prompt-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/all-fools-day-prompt-58\/","title":{"rendered":"All Fools Day . . . Prompt #58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The roots of All Fools Day date back to at least the 1500s as an occasion to perpetrate tomfoolery, possibly in reaction to spring&#8217;s mercurial weather. It&#8217;s observed on April 1 in many Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy, France, Belgium, and French-speaking areas of Switzerland and Canada, pranksters cry &#8220;April fish&#8221; as they tape paper fish to people&#8217;s backs.<\/p>\n<p>In 1957, the <a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> pulled a prank, known as the <a title=\"The Spaghetti Tree Hoax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spaghetti_tree_hoax\" target=\"_blank\">Swiss Spaghetti Harvest <\/a>prank, where they broadcast a fake film of Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti. The BBC were later flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti plant, forcing them to declare the film a prank on the news the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_Fools%27_Day\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong><b>\u00a0 <\/b>Write about pranks you used to play on April Fool&#8217;s Day, a prank pulled on you, or make up a story about how April Fool&#8217;s Day started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Court-Jester.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-883\" alt=\"Court Jester\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Court-Jester.png\" width=\"157\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roots of All Fools Day date back to at least the 1500s as an occasion to perpetrate tomfoolery, possibly in reaction to spring&#8217;s mercurial weather. It&#8217;s observed on April 1 in many Western countries. In Italy, France, Belgium, and French-speaking areas of Switzerland and Canada, pranksters cry &#8220;April fish&#8221; as they tape paper fish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[386,6,105,387,329,10,11],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-all-fools-day","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-spaghetti-tree-hoax","tag-the-write-spot","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-eb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}