{"id":12140,"date":"2009-05-29T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T07:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/05\/29\/12140.html"},"modified":"2009-05-29T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T07:26:14","slug":"video-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/05\/29\/video-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Video break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kitchen is about half-packed; decided to take a quick break; figured I oughtta post these videos so I can close some browser windows and speed up backups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>A friend observes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XvEiFMcYvMA\">harbor seal<\/a> while diving.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nw-IAYxu5uo\">Hedgehog eating a carrot<\/a> (via I Can Has Cheezburger). Kawaii!<\/li>\n  <li>Jean-Luc Picard suddenly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g3rFNbSKpEE\">bursts into song<\/a>. Totally charming. I have no idea what the context is, but one of the comments says it was recorded for Gene Roddenberry.<\/li>\n  <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoU\">Predictive text swearing sketch<\/a> from British TV. (Will make no sense if you're unfamiliar with using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Predictive_text\">predictive text<\/a> to send text messages on a cell phone.)<\/li>\n  <li>Space videos then and now:\n    <ul>\n      <li>Apollo 17 astronauts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yeP9L-1YxVo\">bounding around on the moon<\/a> in 1972.<\/li>\n      <li>Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata did some cool stuff on the International Space Station a couple weeks ago (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/05\/19\/flying-carpets-in-space-yes-folding-laundry-no\/\">text article<\/a>); the resulting video shows him, among other things, <a href=\"http:\/\/iss.jaxa.jp\/library\/video\/omoshiro_090515.php\">airboarding on a magic carpet<\/a> (I recommend skipping ahead to a little after the halfway point in that video).<\/li>\n    <\/ul>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kitchen is about half-packed; decided to take a quick break; figured I oughtta post these videos so I can close&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}