{"id":736,"date":"2006-05-18T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/05\/steal-this-post-thursday-meme.html"},"modified":"2006-05-18T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T11:56:00","slug":"steal-this-post-thursday-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/05\/steal-this-post-thursday-meme.html","title":{"rendered":"Steal this Post Thursday Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, once again it&#8217;s &#8220;Steal this Post Thursday&#8221; and I forgot all about it until Ang mentioned &#8220;Thrifty Thursday.&#8221;  Then I remember that we do something on Thursday.  Ang, why are you competing with your own blog (remember this is your blog, too)? Why not &#8220;Thrifty Tuesday&#8221;(though, I do admit it&#8217;s not as catchy), we don&#8217;t do anything on Tuesday.<br \/>\nAnyway, I stole this from <a href=\"http:\/\/ethelexperience.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/i-guess-its-time-to-post-this-meme.html\">Ethel<\/a> who stole it from someone else.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia\">Wikipedia<\/a> and do a search for your birthday (day and month only, exclude the year).<br \/>\nPost three facts, two births and one death on your blog including the years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, here are the results:<br \/>\nSeptember 20<br \/>\nEvents (it was hard to choose only three):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/451\" title=\"451\">451<\/a>&#8211; According to some sources, this was the date of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Chalons\" title=\"Battle of Chalons\">Battle of Chalons<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flavius_Aetius\" title=\"Flavius Aetius\">Flavius Aetius<\/a>&#8216; victory over <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Attila_the_Hun\" title=\"Attila the Hun\">Attila the Hun<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1187\" title=\"1187\">1187<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saladin\" title=\"Saladin\">Saladin<\/a> begins the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siege_of_Jerusalem_%281187%29\" title=\"Siege of Jerusalem (1187)\">Siege of Jerusalem<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1891\" title=\"1891\">1891<\/a> &#8211; The first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gasoline\" title=\"Gasoline\">gasoline<\/a>-powered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile\" title=\"Automobile\">car<\/a> debuts in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Springfield%2C_Massachusetts\" title=\"Springfield, Massachusetts\">Springfield, Massachusetts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" title=\"United States\">United States<\/a>.<br \/>\nBirths:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1878\" title=\"1878\">1878<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Upton_Sinclair\" title=\"Upton Sinclair\">Upton Sinclair<\/a>, American writer and politician (d. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1968\" title=\"1968\">1968<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1934\" title=\"1934\">1934<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophia_Loren\" title=\"Sophia Loren\">Sophia Loren<\/a>, Italian actress<br \/>\nA death:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2005\" title=\"2005\">2005<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_Wiesenthal\" title=\"Simon Wiesenthal\">Simon Wiesenthal<\/a>, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1908\" title=\"1908\">1908<\/a>)<br \/>\nIf you play, I&#8217;ll link to you.<br \/>\nBTW, you know, I think I&#8217;m going to come up with a cute graphic like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocksinmydryer.typepad.com\/\">Shannon<\/a> has for <a href=\"http:\/\/reformedchicksblabbing.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/works-for-me.html\">Works for Me Wednesday<\/a>.<br \/>\nUpdated to add:<br \/>\nPamela <a href=\"http:\/\/flutterby7.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/steal-this-post-thursday-meme.html\">played<\/a> and she is the first to have ever done &#8220;Steal this Post Thursday&#8221; the right way.<br \/>\nI noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/empress4.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/steal-this-post-thursday.html\">Mel<\/a> stole it from Pamela.<br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/conservativemusings.typepad.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/steal_this_post.html\">Conservative Musings <\/a>stole it from her.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/homeschoolang.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/steal-this-post-thursday-meme-better.html\">Ang <\/a>made it in under the wire.<br \/>\nI think we&#8217;re playing six degrees of separation here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, once again it&#8217;s &#8220;Steal this Post Thursday&#8221; and I forgot all about it until Ang mentioned &#8220;Thrifty Thursday.&#8221; Then I remember that we do something on Thursday. Ang, why are you competing with your own blog (remember this is your blog, too)? Why not &#8220;Thrifty Tuesday&#8221;(though, I do admit it&#8217;s not as catchy), we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Steal this Post Thursday Meme - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/05\/steal-this-post-thursday-meme.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steal this Post Thursday Meme - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So, once again it&#8217;s &#8220;Steal this Post Thursday&#8221; and I forgot all about it until Ang mentioned &#8220;Thrifty Thursday.&#8221; Then I remember that we do something on Thursday. 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