{"id":832,"date":"2009-06-19T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2009-06-19T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T20:22:00","slug":"stuff-only-alex-cares-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=832","title":{"rendered":"Stuff Only Alex Cares About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thing the first.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure I remember someone in the DVD documentaries for the special edition of Fellowship of the Ring saying that Tolkien invented the word &#8220;wraith&#8221;.  Imagine my surprise, then, when I read a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald using the word.  Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/lingwe.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/writhe-wroth-writhen-wraith-and-ring.html\">someone <\/a>is handling this for me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thing the Second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nice try, Mountain dew with this commercial.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Gh-QQ5G-e3g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Gh-QQ5G-e3g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to this:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y-PGVdEjmiw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y-PGVdEjmiw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thing the third.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After reading <a href=\"http:\/\/willyoumarrymekc.com\/geeky-proposals\/\">this post<\/a>, I really am disappointed that my brother didn&#8217;t propose to his fiancee on Warcraft, though I am wondering if there will be a ceremony in-game.  For the record, I am a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowarmory.com\/character-sheet.xml?r=Scarlet+Crusade&amp;n=Skien\">priest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Thing the last.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Rock Band forums have a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockband.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=143388\"> post<\/a> dedicated to the analyzation [sic] of the Beatles cinematic.  A few good catches in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thing the first. I&#8217;m pretty sure I remember someone in the DVD documentaries for the special edition of Fellowship of the Ring saying that Tolkien invented the word &#8220;wraith&#8221;. Imagine my surprise, then, when I read a quote from F. Scott Fitzgerald using the word. Fortunately, someone is handling this for me. Thing the Second. [&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-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}