{"id":3326,"date":"2007-09-27T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T00:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/mr-dolby-eww\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T00:22:04","slug":"mr-dolby-eww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/mr-dolby-eww\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Dolby &#8212; eww!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/thomasdolby.com\/\">Thomas Dolby<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t even mind admitting that it was one of his songs that initially got me thinking about what to do with my life (<em>&#8220;&#8230; etch out a future of your own design&#8221;<\/em>, and all that) . I got Thomas&#8217;s <em>Live in Chicago<\/em> DVD, and was a bit shocked by the visuals he used for wind power:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/dolby-wind1.jpg\" alt=\"still from Thomas Dolby \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Live in Chicago\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DVD\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those are some old wind turbines. This would be a bit like going for some modern computer imagery, and plunking for a picture of a VIC-20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/dolby-wind2.jpg\" alt=\"still from Thomas Dolby \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Live in Chicago\u00e2\u20ac\u009d DVD\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I mean, eww &#8211; those blades are filthy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of Thomas Dolby, and I don&#8217;t even mind admitting that it was one of his songs that initially got me thinking about what to do with my life (&#8220;&#8230; etch out a future of your own design&#8221;, and all that) . I got Thomas&#8217;s Live in Chicago DVD, and was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[14,8],"tags":[918,917,627,353,59],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choons","category-wind-things","tag-archaic","tag-career","tag-dolby","tag-eww","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-RE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}