{"id":8296,"date":"2011-12-08T23:04:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T05:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2011-12-08T23:04:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T05:04:28","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111208-8296.htm","title":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen this video by my cousin?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xiJThIUTvEw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Okay. So he&#8217;s not my cousin (Bummer for me).<\/p>\n<p>But he is my cousin&#8217;s brother (Yay for me).<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Mike Tompkins is a pretty amazing artist.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what? <\/p>\n<p>If you know me (and of course you do), you can claim connection to him too! <\/p>\n<p>And through him to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mike-tompkins.com\/?i=14057&#038;mid=1000&#038;id=337131\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Degeneres<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As in, &#8220;So I know this girl whose cousin&#8217;s brother was on the Ellen Degeneres Show&#8211;which means that there are only six degrees separating me from&#8230;&#8221; (Insert your own celebrity&#8211;pretty much all of them have been on Ellen right? I&#8217;m checking out my most important celebrities: Colin Firth, check. Hugh Grant, check. Meg Ryan, check. Jennifer Aniston, check. Ooo-looks like no Peter Jackson. Anyway, that&#8217;s okay for me since I have only four degrees to Ellen, so I can go two steps beyond. For you, well, sorry.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>And now you&#8217;ve completely got me pegged. I am an old-school chick flick watcher. Or maybe those people were popular during my brief stint of <i>People magazine<\/i> reading. Or maybe I just have a horrible time remembering celebrity names and that was the best I could do. So sue me. But don&#8217;t forget that I&#8217;m practically<\/i> related<i> to Brad Pitt. Which means it might be a PR nightmare to try to sue me. Just sayin&#8217;.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen this video by my cousin? Okay. So he&#8217;s not my cousin (Bummer for me). But he is my cousin&#8217;s brother (Yay for me). Either way, Mike Tompkins is a pretty amazing artist. And guess what? If you know me (and of course you do), you can claim connection to him too! And &#8230; <a title=\"And now for something completely different&#8230;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111208-8296.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And now for something completely different&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}