{"id":1379,"date":"2007-02-15T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2007-02-15T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T15:13:35","slug":"the-muppet-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1379","title":{"rendered":"The Muppet Matrix."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just opened up its new &#8220;YouTube killer&#8221; (yeah, right) site, <a href=\"http:\/\/soapbox.msn.com\">SoapBox<\/a>.  At first glance, it looks like it has a long, <i>long<\/i> way to go before it could topple YouTube, but it does have some fun stuff on there, including <a href=\"http:\/\/soapbox.msn.com\/video.aspx?vid=7eaee54a-aca7-4ac2-8ade-6b76173a0e4e\"><i>The Muppet Matrix,<\/i><\/a> a spoof trailer rendered with the Muppets instead of Keanu and company.  Completely unauthorized by either party, of course, but it&#8217;s still kind of fun &#150; although I would have loved to have heard attempts at the Muppet&#8217;s voices instead of straight dubs from the film.  Imagine Kermit saying &#8220;Whoa,&#8221; or Rizzo saying &#8220;Buckle your seat belt, Dorothy&#8230;&#8221;  Room for improvement, but still promising.  Kind of like SoapBox, actually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has just opened up its new &#8220;YouTube killer&#8221; (yeah, right) site, SoapBox. At first glance, it looks like it has a long, long way to go before it could topple YouTube, but it does have some fun stuff on there, including The Muppet Matrix, a spoof trailer rendered with the Muppets instead of Keanu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-mf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}