{"id":10,"date":"2007-09-09T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-09T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andybox.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-09-29T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T08:20:56","slug":"quest-for-the-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Quest for the Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate our upcoming 5th anniversary, Jenny and I are planning a trip to <A    href=\"http:\/\/www.disneyworld.com\/\" target=_blank>Walt Disney World<\/A> in October. After overcoming my initial hesitation (how about another cruise, honey?), I have now become obsessed with planning this trip, Jenny&#8217;s first visit to WDW and my first since childhood. Through our planning, I have come to realize several things:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Mickey Mouse is an undeniable cult leader with millions of devoted followers all over the world. <\/li>\n<p><LI>Disney&#8217;s marketing people and &#8220;Imagineers&#8221; basically have a license to print money. <\/li>\n<p><LI>Disney World is so big that even staying about a week, there&#8217;s not a chance we&#8217;ll be able to see everything, which means we&#8217;ll probably decide to go back (see above re: printing money). <\/li>\n<p><LI>Many Disney fans are even more obsessed than I am, with discussion boards and websites that offer restaurant\/resort\/park reviews and thousands of tips, not to mention the dozens (hundreds?) of books in print. I have a cousin who goes EVERY YEAR with her husband. There are many people who visit TWO OR THREE TIMES a year or even more. The amount of devotion and information is overwhelming.<br \/>\n<LI>It&#8217;s OK for a 28-year-old man to be excited about going to Disney World, although it does help if he takes his wife. My wife and I are even planning to have afternoon tea at the Grand Floridian, but don&#8217;t tell my poker buddies.<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\nWe think it will be a great way to celebrate 5 years together along with my 29th birthday. They give you buttons to wear for special occasions like these. If an employee (or Cast Member, in Disney lingo) sees a button, they acknowledge it in various ways, often involving a special greeting or even free desserts or rentals. Between the two of us, we qualify for three different buttons. We&#8217;re hoping that&#8217;s enough to score a night in Cinderella&#8217;s Castle, but we&#8217;ll be happy just to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate our upcoming 5th anniversary, Jenny and I are planning a trip to Walt Disney World in October. After overcoming my initial hesitation (how about another cruise, honey?), I have now become obsessed with planning this trip, Jenny&#8217;s first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=10\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}