{"id":1808,"date":"2008-08-09T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2008-08-09T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T13:27:08","slug":"it-is-pitch-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"It is Pitch Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no culture that cannot be improved by nerding it up.  Including rap culture. <em>Especially<\/em> rap culture.  For example, you could make a rap song about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zork\">Zork<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt><b>It is Pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; What is a grue?<\/p>\n<p>The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in the dark places of the earth. Its favorite diet is adventurers, but its insatiable appetite is tempered by its fear of light. No grue has ever been seen by the light of day, and few have survived its fearsome jaws to tell the tale.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Play <a href=\"http:\/\/frontalot.com\/index.php\/\">MC Frontalot<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4nigRT2KmCE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x402061&#038;color2=0x9461ca\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4nigRT2KmCE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x402061&#038;color2=0x9461ca\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Listening to the lyrics some more, there are references to a ton of different old-school interactive fiction games, not just Zork.  I only recognize a few, but I can tell there are even more I&#8217;m missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no culture that cannot be improved by nerding it up. Including rap culture. Especially rap culture. For example, you could make a rap song about Zork. It is Pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. &gt; What is a grue? The grue is a sinister, lurking presence in 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":[9],"tags":[107,108],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture","tag-mc-frontalot","tag-zork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","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=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}