{"id":5803,"date":"2014-04-07T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:00:01","slug":"i-am-made-of-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/07\/i-am-made-of-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"i am made of disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the big events at nwcMUSIC every year at Norwescon is <i>Cascadia&#8217;s Got Talent!<\/i> which is our <i>Gong Show<\/i>-like talent show. It&#8217;s part actual talent show, part parody of talent shows, we have people who come in and demonstrate really cool talents, we give away terrible prizes, everybody has a good time.<\/p>\n<p>For me, as presenter, the terrible prizes are the best part. We have a trophy, we have a <em>trip<\/em>, we have smaller gifts&#8230; and the thing you have remember is that they&#8217;re <em>all real and exactly what we say they are<\/em>. They work. We give away junk, sure; but we don&#8217;t give away <em>garbage<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why I was so excited about and looking forward to announcing:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2014-04\/yeeeeees.jpg\"><br \/><i><b>Help Me Make It Through the Night with Jim Nabors<\/b><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But I always make sure these things <em>work<\/em>, right? They have to be playable, and in pretty decent condition (unless the condition is part of the funny), so I got it out to clean the disc and make sure it played.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2014-04\/wait-what-no.jpg\"><br \/><i><b>Wait, What?<\/b><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2014-04\/nooooo-1.jpg\"><br \/><i><b>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!<\/b><\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/Meme\/fake-recursive-fake.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Son of a <em>bitch<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the big events at nwcMUSIC every year at Norwescon is Cascadia&#8217;s Got Talent! which is our Gong Show-like talent show. It&#8217;s part actual talent show, part parody of talent shows, we have people who come in and demonstrate really cool talents, we give away terrible prizes, everybody has a good time. For [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}