{"id":751,"date":"2008-09-04T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2008-09-04T10:11:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T14:11:24","slug":"fatboy-skinny-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/fatboy-skinny-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatboy, Skinny Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real post coming up later today.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime&#8230; Below is a screen capture (<strong>not an actual YouTube video<\/strong> &#8212; don&#8217;t (duh) bother clicking the Play button) of the amazing video of Christopher Walken dancing to Fatboy Slim&#8217;s &#8220;Weapon of Choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the actual video, well, the YouTube version (as sometimes happens) has had its &#8220;embedding disabled by request,&#8221; i.e., it can&#8217;t actually be pasted into a blog post. So just go <a title=\"YouTube: Christopher Walken dances to 'Weapon of Choice'\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d forgotten how much I liked this when it came out. The reminder today came from Kate Lord Brown&#8217;s <a title=\"'What Kate Did Next': Grace Under Pressure\" href=\"http:\/\/katelordbrown.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/grace-under-pressure.html\" target=\"_blank\">What Kate Did Next<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin: .25em; padding: .25em; border: 1px solid silver;\" title=\"'Weapon of Choice' video screen capture\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/weaponofchoice_walken.jpg?resize=499%2C421&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"'Weapon of Choice' video screen capture\" width=\"499\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>P.S. Obviously, the planned four-day absence I <a title=\"Earlier post: 'How Do You Figure?'\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/how-do-you-figure\/\">mentioned<\/a> last week didn&#8217;t materialize. I&#8217;ll keep the little stack of posts about figures of speech in a back pocket, to use as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real post coming up later today. In the meantime&#8230; Below is a screen capture (not an actual YouTube video &#8212; don&#8217;t (duh) bother clicking the Play button) of the amazing video of Christopher Walken dancing to Fatboy Slim&#8217;s &#8220;Weapon of Choice.&#8221; For the actual video, well, the YouTube version (as sometimes happens) has had its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,196,37],"tags":[166,406,407,408,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music","7":"category-television","8":"category-onlineworld","9":"tag-youtube","10":"tag-fatboy-slim","11":"tag-christopher-walken","12":"tag-weapon-of-choice","13":"tag-what-kate-did-next","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-c7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}