{"id":1850,"date":"2007-05-07T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/this-is-nice\/"},"modified":"2007-05-07T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T04:48:02","slug":"this-is-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/this-is-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"this is nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>of course, it has 4 million views, so chances are you saw it already:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JzqumbhfxRo\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JzqumbhfxRo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I miss BlogsNow. I used to see this kind of thing when it had 4,000 not 4 million views. 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