{"id":706,"date":"2006-05-23T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=706"},"modified":"2006-05-23T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T16:52:03","slug":"speechless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/speechless\/","title":{"rendered":"Speechless."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some video today, I can&#8217;t exactly describe it myself.  First, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogfiles.wfmu.org\/KF\/2006\/05\/laughing_yogi.mpeg\">a laughing Yogi<\/a>, the audio echoes from this will stay with you for a long time to come.  I can&#8217;t stop looking at his floppy hands from that clip.  Then, much more uncomfortably, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MAhSSy4_7mc\">a monk<\/a> who is really really really, um, <strong>really <\/strong>dedicated to his faith.  <\/p>\n<p>Man, and they wonder why people don&#8217;t go to church anymore.  Ok, that was a low blow, I really shouldn&#8217;t kick them when they are down, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much more I can say, or much more I should say, really.<\/p>\n<p>This came from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2006\/05\/laughing_yogi_c.html\">WFMU blog<\/a>.  Apologies to (any one of the 6 of) you who might read this if this offends you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some video today, I can&#8217;t exactly describe it myself. First, a laughing Yogi, the audio echoes from this will stay with you for a long time to come. I can&#8217;t stop looking at his floppy hands from that clip. Then, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/speechless\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-video-diversions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}