{"id":5563,"date":"2013-01-14T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/01\/14\/state-law-requires-you-to-watch-this-video-of-a-singing-hippo\/"},"modified":"2013-01-14T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T07:00:01","slug":"state-law-requires-you-to-watch-this-video-of-a-singing-hippo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130114-01\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"State law requires you to watch this video of a singing hippo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/06\/18\/9771136.aspx\"> did it briefly a few years ago<\/a>, but I&#8217;m going to make it a regular Monday feature, at least for this year: Blogging my dreams. <\/p>\n<p> I dreamed that I was back in my high school English class, and due to some new state law, everybody was required to watch this video of a singing hippo. The hard part was walking four miles to the nearest viewing location, seeing as we didn&#8217;t even have a TCP\/IP standard yet, much less YouTube. <\/p>\n<p> To think that this is the culmination of the technological advances of the last three decades: Being able to watch a singing hippo on demand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did it briefly a few years ago, but I&#8217;m going to make it a regular Monday feature, at least for this year: Blogging my dreams. I dreamed that I was back in my high school English class, and due to some new state law, everybody was required to watch this video of a singing [&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":[129,103],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-dream","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I did it briefly a few years ago, but I&#8217;m going to make it a regular Monday feature, at least for this year: Blogging my dreams. I dreamed that I was back in my high school English class, and due to some new state law, everybody was required to watch this video of a singing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","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=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/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=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}