{"id":12989,"date":"2011-12-05T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T11:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=12989"},"modified":"2011-11-28T20:49:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T00:49:51","slug":"lord-of-the-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=12989","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, author John Scalzi* watched a Lord of the Rings<\/i> marathon and sort of inadvertently live-tweeted it.<\/p>\n

Orcs vs. Stormtroopers. GO. On second thought, never mind. Neither side aims well enough for it to be interesting.<\/p>\n

They could have just distracted the Wargs by throwing a bunch of red bouncy balls and yelling “fetch.”<\/p>\n

I wonder what ents do when they come across a book. I imagine there\u2019s a lot of screaming.<\/p>\n

Sitcom proposal: Frodo and Sam are roommates, Gollum is their cranky landlord. Gandalf as the wacky neighbor with a cat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s gathered them all up into one epic (no pun intended) post<\/a>. And in response to his tweet, “Dear world: I am deeply disappointed there is not a dubstep version of the Smeagol Fish Battering Song.” one of his fans stepped up to the plate.<\/p>\n

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Heh.
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\n*If you aren’t familiar with John Scalzi, go read Old Man’s War<\/i> or The Android’s Dream<\/i> right now. Now. Stop what you’re doing and go read them. Right now. Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, author John Scalzi* watched a Lord of the Rings marathon and sort of inadvertently live-tweeted it. Orcs vs. Stormtroopers. GO. On second thought, never mind. Neither side aims well enough for it to be interesting. They could have just distracted the Wargs by throwing a bunch of red bouncy balls and yelling “fetch.” I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13013,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12989\/revisions\/13013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}