{"id":2468,"date":"2003-05-20T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T05:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2003-05-20T22:50:27","modified_gmt":"2003-05-21T05:50:27","slug":"my-cred-is-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2003\/05\/20\/my-cred-is-intact\/","title":{"rendered":"My Cred Is Intact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker walked by my office and overheard the mp3 I was listening to.  &#8220;Oh my God!&#8221;  she exclaimed.  &#8220;Are you listing to The Backstreet Boys?!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, of course not!&#8221;  I replied guiltily.   &#8220;Like <i>I&#8217;d<\/i> listen to The Backstreet Boys!  Yeah, right!  Hah hah!  Hah!  No, this is a <i>parody<\/i> of The Backstreet Boys called &#8216;E-Bay&#8217;.&#8221;  By Weird Al Yankovic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whew &#8212; that was close! Thank goodness I was able to explain to her that I was listening to Weird Al &#8212; otherwise she might have thought I was a dork.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thirty-second clips of &#8220;E-Bay&#8221;:  <\/i>[<a href='http:\/\/r3.us.rmi.yahoo.com\/rmi\/http:\/\/mfile.akamai.com\/3171\/wm2\/muze.download.akamai.com\/2890\/us\/uswm2\/873\/482873_1_11.asx\/rmivars%3ftarget=_top?obj=v30515'>windows media player<\/a>][<a href='http:\/\/r3.us.rmi.yahoo.com\/rmi\/http:\/\/mfile.akamai.com\/3171\/rm\/muze.download.akamai.com\/2890\/us\/usrm\/873\/482873_1_11.ram\/rmivars%3ftarget=_top?obj=v30515'>real audio<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"javascript:var open_child_window=PrivoxyWindowOpen('http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/m\/c\/ctv_msnv3.asp?id=msn\/6198&#038;subid=Music&#038;name='+self.name,'mp','height=460,width=520');\" class=\"altlink\">Couch Potato<\/a>, a parody of Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;Lose Yourself,&#8221; in its entirely<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/weird_al\/'>Weird Al Fan Club LiveJournal<\/a>.  Oh my.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker walked by my office and overheard the mp3 I was listening to. &#8220;Oh my God!&#8221; she exclaimed. &#8220;Are you listing to The Backstreet Boys?!!&#8221; &#8220;No, of course not!&#8221; I replied guiltily. &#8220;Like I&#8217;d listen to The Backstreet Boys! Yeah, right! Hah hah! Hah! No, this is a parody of The Backstreet Boys called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}