{"id":445,"date":"2016-09-11T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:28:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:28:03","slug":"birthday-party-clown-admits-he-is-just-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Birthday party clown admits he is just creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Capture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Capture-2.png\" alt=\"capture\" width=\"149\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Bongo the Clown, real name Douglas Jameson aged 42, of Windsor, Ontario announced this week that while he has been performing at children\u2019s birthday parties for last 20 years that his real enjoyment comes not from entertaining children but rather from creeping people out.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview Bongo revealed that he knows his profession is odd and for the most part no one actually likes birthday party clowns but thanks to misguided parents he keeps getting bookings. \u201cI don\u2019t get it either, no one likes clowns, but parents seem to think their kids do like clowns so I manage to stay employed. And as a bonus I get the satisfaction of knowing that I really creep everyone out\u201d said Bongo.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d wager that most people who attend a party where I have performed have a nightmare about me later that evening.\u00a0 I leave a lasting impression\u201d Bongo continued with a somewhat demented smile on his painted\u00a0face.<\/p>\n<p>Bongo went on to say that in addition to his continued birthday party appearances he also plans to start wandering city parks at dusk.\u00a0Bongo\u00a0believes that Windsorites need a distraction from their everyday problems and thinks that a demented looking clown appearing in the evening hours\u00a0around Jackson or Dieppe parks\u00a0will give everyone in Windsor something they can really worry about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Bongo the Clown, real name Douglas Jameson aged 42, of Windsor, Ontario announced this week that while he has been performing at children\u2019s birthday parties for last 20 years that his real enjoyment comes not from entertaining &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=445\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}