{"id":1689,"date":"2019-01-18T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2019-01-18T11:04:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T18:04:51","slug":"tiki-oasis-2017-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2019\/01\/18\/tiki-oasis-2017-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiki Oasis 2017 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gfc6ln3-JwA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a great time at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tiki Oasis (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/tikioasis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiki Oasis<\/a> in 2017. This interview with<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Sassy Stiletto (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sassystiletto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Sassy Stiletto<\/a> was much fun. I love all the colorful and famous people walking past behind us. Especially Judd Finklestien of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MaikaiGents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mai-Kai Gents (opens in a new tab)\">Mai-Kai Gents<\/a> as I had just mentioned him! Also look for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Charles Phoenix (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesphoenix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Phoenix<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great time at Tiki Oasis in 2017. This interview with Sassy Stiletto was much fun. I love all the colorful and famous people walking past behind us. <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2019\/01\/18\/tiki-oasis-2017-interview\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[537],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-fodder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-rf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":681,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2011\/06\/29\/swanky-presents-mai-kai-history-mystery-and-adventure-symposium-at-tiki-oasis\/","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":0},"title":"Swanky presents: &#8220;Mai-Kai &#8211; History, Mystery and Adventure&#8221; Symposium at Tiki Oasis","author":"Swanky","date":"June 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I have been a huge fan of the Mai-Kai since I saw it for the first time when organizing Hukilau 2003. 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