{"id":365,"date":"2007-11-17T23:50:33","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T03:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/365"},"modified":"2008-02-14T10:48:27","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T15:48:27","slug":"the-saga-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/365","title":{"rendered":"The Saga Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting has been light this weekend, but I&#8217;ve been at the NCTE conference.  Perhaps I&#8217;ll blog about the conference later in the week.  For now, enjoy this video of Weird Al as Obi-Wan Kenobi recounting the entire plot of <em>The Phantom Menace<\/em> to the tune of <em>American Pie<\/em> by Don McLean.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q-gi4Nt_xxg&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Q-gi4Nt_xxg&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--dc53dc6e9efeae9e347f4775935b4fae--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting has been light this weekend, but I&#8217;ve been at the NCTE conference. Perhaps I&#8217;ll blog about the conference later in the week. For now, enjoy this video of Weird Al as Obi-Wan Kenobi recounting the entire plot of The Phantom Menace to the tune of American Pie by Don McLean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,2,48,8,26,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humor","category-meta","category-music","category-video","category-visual-arts","category-weird-al"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}