{"id":3218,"date":"2009-08-20T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2009-08-20T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:36:51","slug":"open-the-door-and-jump-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"Open the Door and Jump In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy day today, what with finishing up my two prepared talks for Dragon*Con and writing new material now that William Shatner is a guest, and, oh, yes, there&#8217;s always my real work with the rockets and the lasers and the FWOOSH. So here, watch this video to pass the time.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tp6o5I99Idw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tp6o5I99Idw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I previously <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/13\/no-more-kings-has-me-in-a-nostalgia-hammerlock\/\">gushed about the band No More Kings<\/a>, and somehow missed that they&#8217;d done a video for my favorite song of theirs, &#8220;Michael (Jump In)&#8221;. It&#8217;s an alarmingly cute animated thing; do enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I just discovered that they released their second album in May. And last night, Misty and I finally started watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watchtheguild.com\/\">The Guild<\/a>, the web-based series about a MMORPG guild that is both awesome and awkward. I obviously need an assistant who scours the web for cool things I&#8217;m really going to like and presents them to me each evening, as if on a digital platter, or perhaps even an actual platter like a DVD, to go all 1990s on you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy day today, what with finishing up my two prepared talks for Dragon*Con and writing new material now that William Shatner is a guest, and, oh, yes, there&#8217;s always my real work with the rockets and the lasers and the FWOOSH. So here, watch this video to pass the time. I previously gushed about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=3218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open the Door and Jump In<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}