{"id":5363,"date":"2006-09-24T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2022-10-11T21:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:31:21","slug":"cranium-backseat-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5363","title":{"rendered":"Cranium: &#8220;backseat driver&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found this feverish drawing from a game of Cranium this summer.  Melody had to draw &#8220;backseat driver&#8221;.  Unfortuantely &#8211; she started with the Fisher Price-esque hairdos &#8211; and all any of us could say, from that moment on, was &#8220;gladiators&#8221;, &#8220;Ben Hur&#8221;, &#8220;chariot racing&#8221;, &#8220;Coliseum&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You can feel Melody&#8217;s growing frustrating in the arrows coming out of the backseat driver&#8217;s mouth.  Sadly, all of us guessing just saw that he was the chariot racer in the Coliseum shouting directions to his partner.<\/p>\n<p>Melody said later, resigned, &#8220;I just could not get you guys out of ancient Rome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/cranium-e1665538275866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"542\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-179651\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found this feverish drawing from a game of Cranium this summer. Melody had to draw &#8220;backseat driver&#8221;. Unfortuantely &#8211; she started with the Fisher Price-esque hairdos &#8211; and all any of us could say, from that moment on, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5363\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179652,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions\/179652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}