{"id":75,"date":"2005-04-29T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/29\/tag-youre-it\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T14:23:15","slug":"tag-youre-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/29\/tag-youre-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tag, You’re it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mels <\/a> just sent me a fun \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ctag\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d game…all the way from Germany. I credit her with most of the text that follows, as I did a quick cut and paste job so that I could finish writing her a long-overdue e-mail (its on its way soon, Mels ;o) <\/p>\n

Here\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s how the game works: I have to pick five of the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cif I could be\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d below and write what I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d do if they were my occupation. Then I add another possible \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cif I could be\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d to the end of the list. The last step is to tag three other bloggers to do the very same on their blogs.<\/p>\n

The \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201coccupations\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d:<\/p>\n

If I could be a scientist\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6If I could be a farmer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6If I could be a musician\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a doctor\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a painter\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a gardener\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a missionary\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a chef\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be an architect\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a linguist\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a psychologist\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a librarian\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a lawyer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be an inn-keeper\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be an athlete\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a professor\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a writer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a llama-rider\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6If I could be a mail carrier\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a bonnie pirate\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be an astronaut\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a world famous blogger\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a justice on any one court in the world\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a circus ringmaster\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a professional knitter\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be an interior designer\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 If I could be a lunch-lady…<\/p>\n

So, here goes:<\/p>\n

“If I could be a WRITER, I would, of course, pen the next great American novel that would astonish people with its ability to be moving and riveting and soul-searching and intelligent and witty and startling in its fresh imagery, etc. etc., all without being gratuitous or licentious, crass, vulgar, etc. etc. And then I would travel on the proceeds and buy a decent-sized townhouse in Back Bay Boston so that I could stop paying rent :o)”<\/p>\n

“If I could be a professor, it would be of either creative writing, English lit, or German, in which case I would try and be as cool and fun and hilarious and hospitable as one of my all-time favorite teachers and role model extraordinaire, Herr Adams<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“If I could be an inn-keeper, I’d be a business partner with Mels <\/a>and run the coffee shop portion of our inn in the Bath region. If she didn’t mind, of course.”<\/p>\n

I’m sending this to Hillary,<\/a> Shanna<\/a>, and Gwen<\/a>, because I’d like to hear what they’s say, and also because at least Hill and Gwen need to post something<\/em> and update me on their lives (which is one reason I’m pretty sure Mels sent this to me ;o)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mels just sent me a fun \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201ctag\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d game…all the way from Germany. I credit her with most of the text that follows, as I did a quick cut and paste job so that I could finish writing her a long-overdue e-mail (its on its way soon, Mels ;o)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}