{"id":3112,"date":"2008-11-04T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T08:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/04\/dance-like-a-monkey\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T08:49:29","slug":"dance-like-a-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/04\/dance-like-a-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Like a Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/the_monkey_dance.php\">As you know,<\/a> even if you&#8217;re not Bob, I promised to &#8220;dance like a monkey&#8221; if my DonorsChoose challenge passed $6,000 in donations, which it did. Thus, I am obliged to dance like a monkey.<\/p>\n<p>You might think this would be a simple matter of capering about in a loose-limbed, vaguely simian manner, but it&#8217;s important to do these things <i>properly<\/i>, so some thought was required as to what, exactly, would best meet this obligation. As documented in this video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DAhJsfLhSEI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DAhJsfLhSEI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I hope this meets my obligation, and provides three and a half minutes of entertainment to stop you hitting &#8220;refresh&#8221; on your favorite poll-watching site during election day.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to those of you who donated, even if it did force me to make an ass of myself on video. If you haven&#8217;t donated, and enjoyed the video, please consider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors\/viewChallenge.html?id=19006\">making a contribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re an American, go vote, already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, even if you&#8217;re not Bob, I promised to &#8220;dance like a monkey&#8221; if my DonorsChoose challenge passed $6,000 in donations, which it did. Thus, I am obliged to dance like a monkey. You might think this would be a simple matter of capering about in a loose-limbed, vaguely simian manner, but it&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/11\/04\/dance-like-a-monkey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dance Like a Monkey<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donorschoose_fundraiser","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}