{"id":5682,"date":"2011-04-01T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2011-03-29T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T12:22:01","slug":"if-michael-bay-did-angry-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5682","title":{"rendered":"If Michael Bay Did &#8220;Angry Birds&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don&#8217;t own a smartphone, you&#8217;re probably at least peripherally aware of the insanely-popular game &#8220;Angry Birds.&#8221;  If not, it has the following plot: Pigs have stolen some birds&#8217; eggs.  The birds do not approve, and in vengeance they hurl themselves at structures the pigs have built.  (Why the pigs don&#8217;t get jobs as engineers and then buy all the eggs they want is a question that is not explored.)<\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roosterteeth.com\/\">Rooster Teeth<\/a> they&#8217;re contemplating what a live-action movie based on the game and directed by Michael Bay might be like.  It&#8217;s got at least as much of a plot as Bay&#8217;s last few real movies.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"283\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2matH4B9bTo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2matH4B9bTo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"450\" height=\"283\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popeater.com\/\">PopEater<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you don&#8217;t own a smartphone, you&#8217;re probably at least peripherally aware of the insanely-popular game &#8220;Angry Birds.&#8221; If not, it has the following plot: Pigs have stolen some birds&#8217; eggs. The birds do not approve, and in vengeance they hurl themselves at structures the pigs have built. (Why the pigs don&#8217;t get jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5689,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}