{"id":18715,"date":"2013-07-22T06:33:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18715"},"modified":"2013-06-27T18:31:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T23:31:36","slug":"epic-rap-battles-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18715","title":{"rendered":"Epic Rap Battles of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These have been around for a while but I&#8217;d successfully managed to ignore them until Shadowboy discovered them last week and played a bunch of them at me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicrapbattlesofhistory.com\/\">Epic Rap Battles of History<\/a> pits famous historical and pop culture figures against each other in &#8220;rap battle&#8221; format.  They are deeply surreal, featuring matchups like Hitler vs. Darth Vader, Rasputin vs. Stalin, and Genghis Khan vs. the Easter Bunny.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Gandalf vs. Dumbledore:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZIMoQHpvFQQ?list=PLEFFD0AFDDF3F2C43\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The whole series is available on ERB&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ERB\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These have been around for a while but I&#8217;d successfully managed to ignore them until Shadowboy discovered them last week and played a bunch of them at me. Epic Rap Battles of History pits famous historical and pop culture figures against each other in &#8220;rap battle&#8221; format. They are deeply surreal, featuring matchups like Hitler [&hellip;]<\/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-18715","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\/18715","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=18715"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19045,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715\/revisions\/19045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}