{"id":346,"date":"2008-01-05T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2008\/01\/05\/og-tiki-central\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T15:31:50","slug":"og-tiki-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2008\/01\/05\/og-tiki-central\/","title":{"rendered":"OG Tiki Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a steady refrain that Tiki Central is not what it used to be. This is true. But there are very regularly things there that still\u00c2\u00a0make an old Tiki dog\u00c2\u00a0wag their tail. I am going to start posting links to the threads on Tiki Central that interest me and that I think will interest the old school Tiki peeps.<\/p>\n<p>If you consider yourself one of those OG Tiki Peeps and you&#8217;d like to help in this project, please drop me a line. The more, the merrier.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t start this blog as a\u00c2\u00a0Tiki blog. 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