{"id":44,"date":"2014-04-16T20:06:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christiansdontbite.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-04-16T20:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T20:06:23","slug":"basket-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Basket Bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Since this in on the internet, persons reading this could be from all over the globe.\u00a0 Well, in the midwest United States, we have a little thing called Longenberger basket bingo.\u00a0 For the uninitiated, Longenberger baskets are a high quality basket created by the Longenberger company.\u00a0 Local organizations have bingos, where the prizes are these highly sought after baskets.\u00a0 These are usually fundraisers for schools, or not-for-profits in all shapes and sizes.\u00a0\u00a0 Last night, my friend, her grandson and I entered the world of competitive basket bingo.Don’t snicker.\u00a0 These ladies take this stuff seriously!\u00a0 We sat behind a table of ladies who, when they heard an announcement of the next bingo coming up, sponsored by another organization, reached into their handbags (properly emblazoned by bingo labels or Longenberger symbols) and eagerly wrote down the next date and time.\u00a0 Some even brought out the blackberry.\u00a0\u00a0 Longenberger ladies are high tech too, don’t you know.<\/p>\n

Around us sat several people in differing degrees of indoctrination.\u00a0 Let me preface by saying that the organization sponsoring this was our local universities student association.\u00a0\u00a0 To our right was a table of college age young men, who, either there at their girlfriends urging, or by a professors, groaned and yelled out with the best of us when their letter and number was called-or was not.\u00a0 This made my friends grandson happy, as he was afraid he would be the only boy.\u00a0 Not so, young man!\u00a0 Then there were the other table of ladies that had a bingo marker for each color the rainbow and probably had that lucky troll doll in their purse to ask for the right number.\u00a0 Those of you that watched Rosanne in the 80s will understand that reference.
\nFloating around, selling raffle tickets and selling snacks were college girls and boys that I knew were thinking to themselves.\u00a0 “Man, I hope I don’t get this old and boring!”\u00a0 They’ll learn.\u00a0 For the lure of the Longenberger will get them someday too.<\/p>\n

My friend and I go to\u00a0one of these at least once a year.\u00a0 One, there isn’t much\u00a0to do in our town on a work night, and two, its just fun.\u00a0\u00a0 Well this time, to my friend’s delight, she actually won something.\u00a0 As did I!<\/p>\n

It was raining cats and dogs outside, it was close to freezing in temperature, but it was warm and happy inside next to the warmth of a hand made basket.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t get any better than that, does it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since this in on the internet, persons reading this could be from all over the globe.\u00a0 Well, in the midwest United States, we have a little thing called Longenberger basket bingo.\u00a0 For the uninitiated, Longenberger baskets are a high quality basket created by the Longenberger company.\u00a0 Local organizations have bingos, where the prizes are these … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Basket Bingo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"christiansddev","author_link":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/?author=1"},"featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-300x100.jpg",300,100,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-768x256.jpg",525,175,true],"large":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-1024x341.jpg",525,175,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-1536x512.jpg",1536,512,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-2048x683.jpg",2048,683,true],"gb-block-post-grid-landscape":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"gb-block-post-grid-square":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"twentyseventeen-featured-image":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg.jpg",2000,667,false],"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg.jpg",100,33,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg.jpg",600,200,false],"portfolio_item-masonry":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg.jpg",600,200,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_cinema":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg.jpg",800,267,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_portrait":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg.jpg",600,200,false],"portfolio_item-thumbnail_square":["https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Women_lg.jpg",800,267,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansdontbite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}