{"id":9053,"date":"2013-01-05T13:35:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T18:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=9053"},"modified":"2013-01-05T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T18:35:23","slug":"a-double-dose-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-double-dose-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"A double dose of culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darkoctober618.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/thomas-hardy-does-hokey-pokey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Hardy does the hokey-pokey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a morning when the grey skies rained down sleet,<br \/>\nI stuck my left foot into the abyss;<br \/>\nI shook it to and fro, and then switched feet,<br \/>\nAnd thought how all must end with death&#8217;s bleak kiss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/darkoctober618.blogspot.com\/2013\/01\/this-was-inevitable.html\" target=\"_blank\">Poe sticks his left foot in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dotclue.org\/archives\/004138.html\" target=\"_blank\">J. Greely notes<\/a> that the DVD of the movie <i><b>Megaforce<\/b><\/i> has finally been released in the USA. Out of curiosity, I searched for clips on YouTube and found this. &#8220;Awesome&#8221; isn&#8217;t <i>quite<\/i> the word.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O1NpZxn860M?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally, one of the links in Greely&#8217;s sidebar is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=calories+in+a+cubic+light+year+of+cheese\" target=\"_blank\">A Cubic Light-year of Cheese<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Hardy does the hokey-pokey: On a morning when the grey skies rained down sleet, I stuck my left foot into the abyss; I shook it to and fro, and then switched feet, And thought how all must end with death&#8217;s bleak kiss. Update: Poe sticks his left foot in. ***** J. Greely notes that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-double-dose-of-culture\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A double dose of culture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2m1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}