{"id":199,"date":"2008-01-12T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/boing-boing\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:05:25","slug":"boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while there, I had started to think that the posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a> (&#8220;A Directory of Wonderful Things&#8221;) weren&#8217;t as good as they used to be (too much politics, not enough wonder?).  Whether or not that was true, they totally redeemed themselves with two posts I saw this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/11\/video-of-people-from.html\">video of people from 1 to 100 hitting a drum<\/a> is pretty much what it sounds like.  There&#8217;s really no reason for it to be as captivating as it is, but I couldn&#8217;t stop watching it.<\/p>\n<p>Second was a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/bentobjects.blogspot.com\/\">Bent Objects<\/a>.  I especially liked &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bentobjects.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/chained-to-his-desk.html\">Chained to His Desk<\/a>&#8220;.  Now, there are certainly ways in which I am creative, but I still often mourn my lack of creativity.  When I do that, <em>this<\/em> is exactly the kind of thing I wish I could think of, but never would in a million years.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/11\/octopus-jealously-gu.html\">octopus who is friends with a Mr. Potato Head<\/a> was funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while there, I had started to think that the posts on Boing Boing (&#8220;A Directory of Wonderful Things&#8221;) weren&#8217;t as good as they used to be (too much politics, not enough wonder?). Whether or not that was true, they totally redeemed themselves with two posts I saw this morning. The video of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}