{"id":5846,"date":"2011-05-16T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2011-05-11T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:35:30","slug":"the-fuzziest-power-ballad-youll-hear-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5846","title":{"rendered":"The Fuzziest Power Ballad You&#8217;ll Hear All Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fuzzy-Nation-John-Scalzi\/dp\/0765328542\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1305121288&#038;sr=8-1\">Fuzzy Nation<\/a>, John Scalzi&#8217;s reboot of H. Beam Piper&#8217;s <i>Little Fuzzy<\/i>, has just been released, and he wanted to do &#8220;something special&#8221; to draw attention to its release.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the usual sort of book trailers weren&#8217;t cutting it for me. I thought, &#8216;what this book needs is a massive and ridiculous power ballad, just like you&#8217;d have during the end credits of the latest summer cinematic explodaganza.&#8217; So I contacted nerd-comedy masters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulandstorm.com\/\">Paul &#038; Storm<\/a> and dared them to make it real. They dared. Oh, they dared INDEED. Enjoy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AcfaItygU4M?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\/AcfaItygU4M?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\">Whatever<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi&#8217;s reboot of H. Beam Piper&#8217;s Little Fuzzy, has just been released, and he wanted to do &#8220;something special&#8221; to draw attention to its release. the usual sort of book trailers weren&#8217;t cutting it for me. I thought, &#8216;what this book needs is a massive and ridiculous power ballad, just like you&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846"}],"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=5846"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5857,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5846\/revisions\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}