{"id":527,"date":"2007-04-29T20:13:37","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/29\/onion-video-on-segway\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T01:28:10","slug":"onion-video-on-segway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/04\/29\/onion-video-on-segway","title":{"rendered":"Onion Video on Segway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\">The Onion<\/a> since the late 90&#8217;s when I lived in Chicago and could pick up the paper version at any street corner.  Recently I&#8217;ve wondered how long they can continue given the relatively small set of story structures they tend to use. Now they&#8217;re providing video, though, and my faith is restored. They even provide convenient HTML code for embedding (although I expect this won&#8217;t translate well into my RSS feed):<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/common\/assets\/videoplayer\/flvplayer.swf\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/xml\/61101\/video&amp;debugging=true&amp;autostart=false&amp;image=http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/files\/images\/SEGWAY.jpg&amp;bufferlength=3&amp;embedded=true&amp;title=In%20The%20Know%3A%20Life%20Before%20The%20Segway\" height=\"355\" width=\"400\" ><\/embed><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/61101?utm_source=embedded_video\">In The Know: Life Before The Segway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dewar&#8217;s is staking out a significant presence in the web video universe. I first noticed them when they sponsored the permanent archives of the <a href=\"http:\/\/zefrank.com\/theshow\">Zefrank Show<\/a> &#8212; now they&#8217;re everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>There must be an interesting legal issue or two just about to surface with advertising in this sort of syndicated embedded video content. I&#8217;m not sure exactly what it is yet, but watch out, it&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading The Onion since the late 90&#8217;s when I lived in Chicago and could pick up the paper version at any street corner. Recently I&#8217;ve wondered how long they can continue given the relatively small set of story structures they tend to use. Now they&#8217;re providing video, though, and my faith is restored. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}