{"id":8665,"date":"2010-11-08T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2010-10-21T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T18:58:20","slug":"oh-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8665","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the links I featured in a link dump a while back was to <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/788\/\">this<\/a> xkcd cartoon, which noted that poems in ballad meter can be sung to the tune of &#8220;Gilligan&#8217;s Island.&#8221;  That sparked a flurry of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8084#comments\">comments<\/a>, all suggesting creative ways to completely ruin poetry.<\/p>\n<p>And then pdq dug up this:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KTCYLbFxTpI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KTCYLbFxTpI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m&#8230;going to go sit in a corner and whimper now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the links I featured in a link dump a while back was to this xkcd cartoon, which noted that poems in ballad meter can be sung to the tune of &#8220;Gilligan&#8217;s Island.&#8221; That sparked a flurry of comments, all suggesting creative ways to completely ruin poetry. And then pdq dug up this: I&#8217;m&#8230;going [&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-8665","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\/8665","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=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}