{"id":604,"date":"2008-04-21T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2008-04-17T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T19:34:46","slug":"something-spooky-just-after-3-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=604","title":{"rendered":"Something Spooky Just After 3 a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"

Nessie<\/p>\n

If you’re familiar with the iGoogle<\/a> page, you probably know that you can customize its appearance with several themes<\/a>. <\/p>\n

What you may not know is that every night at 3:14 a.m., some of the themes get a little creepy. On the Beach<\/a>, Nessie surfaces for 60 seconds, then takes a deep breath and dives back underwater for another day. In Cityscape<\/a>, UFOs descend and start abducting pedestrians. A monster appears in Spring Scape<\/a>, and the fox spirits of Japanese folklore appear out of the mist in the Tea House<\/a> theme. The timestamp is a geek homage to the mathematical concept of Pi–and in fact, the 3:14 Easter Egg in the Sweet Dreams<\/a> theme is the Greek letter pi made out of stars.<\/p>\n

You can see screen shots of a couple other theme Easter eggs here<\/a>, along with a method for unlocking the other themes at a more decent hour of the day.<\/p>\n

(via Museum of Hoaxes<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re familiar with the iGoogle page, you probably know that you can customize its appearance with several themes. What you may not know is that every night at 3:14 a.m., some of the themes get a little creepy. On the Beach, Nessie surfaces for 60 seconds, then takes a deep breath and dives back […]<\/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-604","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\/604","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=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}