{"id":292,"date":"2009-06-30T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2011-05-16T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:26:59","slug":"7-what-happened-to-betty-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/7-what-happened-to-betty-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"7. What Happened to Betty Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Betty Jane, Rastafarian\" src=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/images\/20090630BettyJaneRasta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"183\" \/>So out of nowhere (while I was wondering where B.J. had gone) she walked inside my house, which scared the f___ing Hell out of me (which was a personal first for sure). And lo and behold that doll and become a Rastafarian!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, s___ in a hand basket,&#8221; I screamed (like a Banshee).\u00a0 <strong>What does it take to get you to act normal, anyway?<\/strong> I have practically pulled out my hair and rolled around like a circle around the planet Earth (as though Saturn didn&#8217;t already have enough rings in the first place). However, will there ever be another Uranus?<\/p>\n<p>And although Betty Jane seemed a tad shocked by my exclamation, then it occurred to her: Jeeeze, you know what: that old bitch really is my real little girl &#8212; so I think my next move is to become the oldest Young Republican, and that she did.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Betty Jane, Young Republican\" src=\"https:\/\/kaybuena.com\/images\/20090630BettyJaneYR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\" \/>And that&#8217;s the story, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So out of nowhere (while I was wondering where B.J. had gone) she walked inside my house, which scared the f___ing Hell out of me (which was a personal first for sure). And lo and behold that doll and become a Rastafarian! &#8220;Oh, s___ in a hand basket,&#8221; I screamed (like a Banshee).\u00a0 What does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-betty-jane-chronicles","category-true-and-unusual-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R4qt-4I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":164,"url":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/8-saywhat-ever-happened-to-betty-jane-er-the-doll\/","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":0},"title":"16. 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The re-appearence of the most surprising entity: The New Improved &quot;Betty Jane&quot; (Childhood companion of Ms. Buena)","author":"","date":"March 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0\u00a0 We were involved in our usual drama of\u00a0 a personal nature, when out of that where in no-where\u00a0 re-enters my strangely intriguing\u00a0 main character once again, Ms. Betty Jane Abbitt.\u00a0 So she's a doll.\u00a0 Get over it.\u00a0 So I'm over 60.\u00a0 Get over that too.\u00a0 This sort of silliness\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;(The) Betty Jane Chronicles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"(The) Betty Jane Chronicles","link":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/category\/the-betty-jane-chronicles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Betty Jane Mug Shot","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaybuena.com\/images\/tn20080929BettyJaneIMG_1023.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":143,"url":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/the-unexpected-disapearance-of-betty-jane\/","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":2},"title":"4. The Unexpected disapearance of &quot;Betty Jane.&quot;","author":"Kay Buena","date":"January 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just as I was going to brag about how pretty \"Betty Jane\" looks, \u00a0now that her wig\u00a0 is all new and nice, her \"make-up\" updated, and her new eyelashes\u00a0make that crazy serious stare go away... She's\u00a0all\u00a0better and those long missingeyelashes\u00a0on where she lost them in that long ago explosion,\u00a0were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;(The) Betty Jane Chronicles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"(The) Betty Jane Chronicles","link":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/category\/the-betty-jane-chronicles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Betty Jane's Monday Panties","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaybuena.com\/images\/20090108BettyJaneMondayPantie222x274.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/blog.kaybuena.com\/blog\/betty-janes-laundry-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":3},"title":"1. 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