We’re kicking off Blogging A – Z for April on April Fool’s Day, so I thought it proper to look at “antic,” or more appropriately, “antics.”\u00a0 According to Visual Thesaurus, Antic, when used as a noun, means “a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.”\u00a0 If you’re using it as a verb, it means “act as or like a clown.”\u00a0 As an adjective, it means “ludicrously odd.”<\/p>\n
April Fool’s Day<\/a>, while not an official holiday, is widely celebrated with practical jokes or antics designed to catch friends, family, co-workers, or acquaintances off-guard.\u00a0 Some antics are elaborate while others are more casual.\u00a0 All are designed for a bit of fun.\u00a0 Sometimes, that fun gets out of\u00a0 control and causes problems, but most people roll with the spirit of the occasion and laugh off the results.<\/p>\n Two common practical jokes are turning a co-worker’s desk around or putting a Jell-O like substance in a coffee cup resulting in a spoon standing upright.\u00a0 I had a friend who converted her writing community site colors to a terrible color combination that assaulted the visual senses as a practical joke on the members.<\/p>\n Sometimes the antics extend to other times of year.\u00a0 One year, we gift-wrapped a co-worker’s cubicle for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n What are some antics you or, ahem, friends of yours have participated in and how did they turn out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re kicking off Blogging A – Z for April on April Fool’s Day, so I thought it proper to look at “antic,” or more appropriately, “antics.”\u00a0 According to Visual Thesaurus, Antic, when used as a noun, means “a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.”\u00a0 If you’re using …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-z-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}