{"id":206,"date":"2008-07-04T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-09T19:55:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T01:55:49","slug":"175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/175","title":{"rendered":"Insert Distraction Here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, some videos and such to distract you from the fact that I haven&#8217;t posted anything about my recent trip to Wales.<\/p>\n<p>First <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1211060\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Where The Hell Is Matt (2008)<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The back story of the video is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce &#8220;Where the Hell is Matt?&#8221;, a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he could rope into it) doing an incredibly silly, high-energy dance in some of the most breathtaking scenery around the world. This may be the best four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of your week.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I happen to agree. The video made me grin like a fool for no reason \u2014 and for every reason, it just made my heart feel light, and made me happy.\u00a0 I liked the song enough to actually pay for it (conceal your shocked expressions, please).\u00a0 If you wanna know more about Matt and his 15 minutes of fame, you can read all about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/wherethehellismatt.com\/about.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HIS SITE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, a video that I&#8217;m sure everyone has seen, but just hit my radar today, courtesy of an email.\u00a0 I present to you, the heartbreak of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=w6ylxWcwkUM\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>COOTIES<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly&#8230; sometimes it&#8217;s worth watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ORIGINAL<\/strong><\/a>, sincere, but unintentionally silly video, just so you can really enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=N0amCfgnwY8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PARODIES<\/strong><\/a>, as most of the time they are <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=P6dUCOS1bM0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FUNNIER<\/strong><\/a>, and more <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=4mXwXHioKAg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>LUDICROUS<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 And then someone comes along and does <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=9-tHAwsPkHo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>THIS<\/strong><\/a> (ignore the video, listen to the music).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, some videos and such to distract you from the fact that I haven&#8217;t posted anything about my recent trip to Wales. First Where The Hell Is Matt (2008).\u00a0 The back story of the video is this: &#8220;Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce &#8220;Where the Hell is Matt?&#8221;, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-links","category-rambling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}