{"id":725,"date":"2008-03-03T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2008-03-03T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T18:20:00","slug":"its-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s fate."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear MTV &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>You must have heard I called in sick today.  Why else would you play a straight hour of animated videos in the middle of the day? <\/p>\n<p>You should know that all in all, I was satisfied with your choices.  Daft Punk&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=oXC70kVNcsY\">One More Time<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=aNaKWXqXkhw\">Money for Nothing<\/a>&#8221; by Dire Straits are the obvious historical choices, and you did well to include them.  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=OKcDa0Kp2K8\">Move Your Feet<\/a>&#8221; maintains its hilarity and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=8fr8y9cMyx8\">Breaking the Habit<\/a>&#8221; will never cease to be awesome.<\/p>\n<p>That being stated,  why two Gorillaz videos?  And why was neither of them <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=YzDiFEqAoUk\">19\/2000<\/a>?  Also, that <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=yre5nBXAxyk\">Tupac video<\/a> is awful.  I am literally filled with awe at how bad it is. <\/p>\n<p>My only additions might have been &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_query=paranoid+android&amp;search_type=\">Paranoid Android<\/a>&#8221; (though its like seventy minutes long, weird, and only important to Radiohead freaks, so maybe &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=JLOPO-z7xh4\">Pyramid Song<\/a>&#8220;), Matthew Sweet&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Q9aWPTCc2r0\">Girlfriend<\/a>&#8221; in place of the Daft Punk thing, and lego-tastic &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=XRDi67G0Siw\">Fell in Love with a Girl<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br \/>Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear MTV &#8211; You must have heard I called in sick today. Why else would you play a straight hour of animated videos in the middle of the day? You should know that all in all, I was satisfied with your choices. Daft Punk&#8217;s &#8220;One More Time&#8221; and &#8220;Money for Nothing&#8221; by Dire Straits are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}