{"id":16893,"date":"2009-09-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/01\/walt-mosspuppet-the-return-of-the-fake-blog\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T10:00:01","slug":"walt-mosspuppet-the-return-of-the-fake-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090901-01\/?p=16893","title":{"rendered":"Walt Mosspuppet: The return of the fake blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fakesteve.blogspot.com\/\"> Fake Steve Jobs<\/a> put on the map the wonderful insanity of the fake celebrity blog. (I&#8217;m sure there were others before Fake Steve Jobs, but that&#8217;s the one that made it cool and hip.) Copycats sprung up, from <a href=\"http:\/\/fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com\/\"> Fake Steve Ballmer<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/mockmark.blogspot.com\/\"> Mock Mark Cuban<\/a>, but none of them really had the staying power of good old Fake Steve Jobs.\n (movie trailer voice) Until now.<\/p>\n<p> Introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rantpuppets.com\">Walt Mosspuppet<\/a>, a fake video blog starring a puppet version of the technology reporter. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/rantpuppets.com\/2009\/08\/walt-mossberg-reviews-snow-leopard\/\">     Walt Mossberg reviews Snow Leopard<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/rantpuppets.com\/2009\/07\/walt-mossbergs-guide-to-surviving-windows-7\/\">     Walt Mossberg&#8217;s Guide to Surviving Windows 7<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/rantpuppets.com\/2009\/07\/walt-mossberg-i-am-responsible-for-apples-success\/\">     Walt Mossberg: &#8220;I am Responsible for Apple&#8217;s Success&#8221;<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I love this guy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Steve Jobs put on the map the wonderful insanity of the fake celebrity blog. (I&#8217;m sure there were others before Fake Steve Jobs, but that&#8217;s the one that made it cool and hip.) Copycats sprung up, from Fake Steve Ballmer to Mock Mark Cuban, but none of them really had the staying power of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-16893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Fake Steve Jobs put on the map the wonderful insanity of the fake celebrity blog. (I&#8217;m sure there were others before Fake Steve Jobs, but that&#8217;s the one that made it cool and hip.) Copycats sprung up, from Fake Steve Ballmer to Mock Mark Cuban, but none of them really had the staying power of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}