{"id":562,"date":"2007-07-20T16:44:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/562"},"modified":"2007-07-20T16:44:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T22:44:56","slug":"local-lore-tim-wants-a-magical-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/562","title":{"rendered":"Local lore: Tim wants a magical button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago,   my friend Tim said that he wants a button the wall that,   when pushed,   would signal a troupe of dancers to come out and perform to Michael Jacksons &#8220;Smooth Criminal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is about as close as I&#8217;ve seen:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hMnk7lh9M3o\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Phillipino inmates, en mass, dancing to Thriller. If I ever went to prison, this is what I&#8217;d try to do too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, my friend Tim said that he wants a button the wall that, when pushed, would signal a troupe of dancers to come out and perform to Michael Jacksons &#8220;Smooth Criminal&#8221;. This is about as close as I&#8217;ve seen: Phillipino inmates, en mass, dancing to Thriller. If I ever went to prison, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever","category-these-are-the-people-in-your-neighborhood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}