{"id":74634,"date":"2011-12-10T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/74634\/week\/"},"modified":"2011-12-10T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T09:13:09","slug":"week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/74634\/week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Friday&#8230;Friday&#8230;Gotta get down on Friday!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Yes, a Rebecca Black reference.\u00a0 Just this week, the flash-in-the-pan-of-the-year for 2011 got another reference, thanks to one Rick Perry&#8230; may their names forever be linked. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">See, Miss Black&#8217;s &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221; video was up until this week, the most &#8220;disliked&#8221; video in the entire world, or at least on YouTube, which is the entire world when it comes to online videos.\u00a0 Rick Perry&#8217;s homophobic Iowa ad about how horrible it is that gays can serve openly in the military surpassed the auto-tuned adolescent nightmare music video while\u00a0 achieving over half a million &#8220;dislikes&#8221; (as opposed to 17K &#8216;likes&#8217;) on YouTube.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now the most hated video in the history of the world. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Deservedly so. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">* * * <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Once again, I&#8217;ve been having lots of weird dreams this week. Perhaps the strangest was this very vivid dream where I discovered that Lady GaGa was living undercover in the upstairs apartment.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">* * *<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">Tonight, on Friday, I had to get down on Friday.\u00a0 So I travelled up to Snohomish to attend the open mic night that has been so important to me over these last year and a half or so&#8230; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\">You may have heard me play this song before, but it&#8217;s my favorite thing to perform, despite it&#8217;s difficulty&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><br \/>\n<font face=\"arial,helvetica,sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8230;Friday&#8230;Gotta get down on Friday! Yes, a Rebecca Black reference.\u00a0 Just this week, the flash-in-the-pan-of-the-year for 2011 got another reference, thanks to one Rick Perry&#8230; may their names forever be linked. See, Miss Black&#8217;s &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221; video was up until this week, the most &#8220;disliked&#8221; video in the entire world, or at least on YouTube, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}