{"id":1218,"date":"2007-06-29T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2007-07-04T03:38:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T08:38:14","slug":"idiot-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Idiot of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my <a href=\"?p=708\">Rollercoaster video<\/a> from last year?  This week I got a message from <a href=\"\">another YouTube user<\/a>: [Link redacted: Please see <a href=\"?p=1230\">the followup<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">Hey, im the original maker of the Bowling Plus Rollercoaster = fun!, I posted that video on www.thatvideosite.com on October 10, 2006 and then last posted it on youtube. Please remove the video now or state that i am the maker. Thank You<\/div>\n<p>Astounding.  <\/p>\n<p>This is like walking up to a random stranger on the street and saying, &#8220;Excuse me sir, but you seem to be eating my ice cream cone.&#8221;  You are lying to the one person in the world who is least likely to believe your lie. I didn&#8217;t bother asking him why, if he made the movie, he put my real name in the credits.  He doesn&#8217;t seem to be a forward-thinker. <\/p>\n<p>I can understand that there are idiots and freaks all over the internet, and I&#8217;m aware that YouTube tends to draw the wost ones, but it still amazes me when I run into these people and I get to see them do their thing.  I&#8217;m captivated by this sort of behavior: <em>What are these people like in real life?<\/em>  Could they possibly be this dumb <em>and<\/em> this dishonest and still survive?  <\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my Rollercoaster video from last year? This week I got a message from another YouTube user: [Link redacted: Please see the followup.] Hey, im the original maker of the Bowling Plus Rollercoaster = fun!, I posted that video on www.thatvideosite.com on October 10, 2006 and then last posted it on youtube. Please remove the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","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=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}