{"id":9390,"date":"2013-02-27T21:35:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=9390"},"modified":"2013-02-27T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:35:54","slug":"insomnia-and-czardas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/insomnia-and-czardas\/","title":{"rendered":"Insomnia and cz\u00e1rd\u00e1s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2MIeuEGTomw?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Early this morning, after I had given up on getting any more sleep, I discovered that there are a number of full-length ballets on YouTube. <i>Copp\u00e9lia<\/i> is a favorite of mine. The melodious score is worth listening to even if you are not interested in dance, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolshoi.ru\/en\/performances\/283\/libretto\/\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> almost makes sense. There&#8217;s even a mad scientist (or magician). The video above is a Bolshoi Ballet performance.<\/p>\n<p>Others I found include <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wwuN_OdP05M\" target=\"_blank\">La Bayadere<\/a><\/i>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e-a4HjwuuEs\" target=\"_blank\">The Sleeping Beauty<\/a><\/i>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9rJoB7y6Ncs\" target=\"_blank\">Swan Lake<\/a><\/i> and more, often in multiple versions and occasionally in HD. There&#8217;s also opera.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b11ElH3qm2M?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>And now for something completely different: Japanese Vikings, singing songs of <i>[censored]<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: And the video is gone. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=3558\" target=\"_blank\">This is what you missed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this morning, after I had given up on getting any more sleep, I discovered that there are a number of full-length ballets on YouTube. Copp\u00e9lia is a favorite of mine. The melodious score is worth listening to even if you are not interested in dance, and the story almost makes sense. There&#8217;s even a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/insomnia-and-czardas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insomnia and cz\u00e1rd\u00e1s&#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":[7,8,31],"tags":[82,238],"class_list":["post-9390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-videos","tag-ballet","tag-girls-und-panzer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2rs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390","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=9390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}