{"id":14665,"date":"2013-09-24T10:33:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T17:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/09\/24\/14665.html"},"modified":"2013-09-24T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T17:33:40","slug":"countdown-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2013\/09\/24\/countdown-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple weeks ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/09\/14\/14656.html\">posted<\/a> about the mysterious countdown that was happening on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/pronunciationbook\">Pronunciation Book<\/a> YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the countdown reached zero, and the final video was posted. It connects Pronunciation Book to a well-known Twitter account, believed until today to be a spambot, called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horse_ebooks\">horse_ebooks<\/a>; it turns out that both Pronunciation Book and horse_ebooks have been part of a multi-year project that seems to have been, at least in part, the buildup to an interactive &ldquo;choose your own adventure&rdquo;-style video piece called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearstearnsbravo.com\">Bear Stearns Bravo<\/a>. I gather there's more to it than the video&mdash;for $7, you can sign up to become a member of BravoNET, which looks like it may be part of a game called Second Impact&mdash;but I'm hazy on the details.<\/p>\n<p>For more about all this, see Susan Orlean's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/elements\/2013\/09\/horse-ebooks-and-pronunciation-book-revealed.html\">post<\/a> in the <cite>New Yorker<\/cite> blog.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago, I posted about the mysterious countdown that was happening on the Pronunciation Book YouTube channel. Today,&#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":[58,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-net-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14665","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=14665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}