{"id":11035,"date":"2011-03-15T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:07:02","slug":"pax-east-2011-cosplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11035","title":{"rendered":"PAX East 2011: Cosplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the better part of an hour going through our PAX East pictures.  I rounded up the cosplay pictures, grouped them, gave them titles, tagged them, and put a funny caption on each.  Then I created a slideshow and discovered that Flickr doesn&#8217;t display any of that. It just shows pictures. At a fixed rate, moving from one image to the next whether the viewer is done or not. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><object width=\"600\" height=\"500\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F77214970%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157626130805085%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F77214970%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157626130805085%2F&#038;set_id=72157626130805085&#038;jump_to=\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=71649\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F77214970%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157626130805085%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F77214970%40N00%2Fsets%2F72157626130805085%2F&#038;set_id=72157626130805085&#038;jump_to=\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There is no way to share or embed these pictures in a way that preserves the captions. I can&#8217;t even point you to a link off-site that will accomplish this. And I&#8217;m not going back into that clunky interface so I can copy &#038; paste all my captions here. <\/p>\n<p>Now I remember why I don&#8217;t use Flickr.  It&#8217;s a pain to share photos (it requires at least four clicks to get the URL for a picture to share, so alt-tabbing back and forth can get to be very tedious.) Any site dedicated to sharing photos ought to be <em>at least<\/em> able to share photos as easily as YouTube share videos. <\/p>\n<p>Shameful, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the better part of an hour going through our PAX East pictures. I rounded up the cosplay pictures, grouped them, gave them titles, tagged them, and put a funny caption on each. Then I created a slideshow and discovered that Flickr doesn&#8217;t display any of that. It just shows pictures. At a fixed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}