{"id":4333,"date":"2008-04-16T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T04:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/16\/open-thread-old-commercials-trapped-in-an-elevator-with-british-pigeons\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T04:49:02","slug":"open-thread-old-commercials-trapped-in-an-elevator-with-british-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4333","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Old Commercials Trapped In An Elevator With British Pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s almost a half-century old, and the woman is fictional, but still I find myself begging this woman to GET A FUCKING DIVORCE!!!!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x5idyptK15w&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x5idyptK15w&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also, check out this article from a British paper: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreycomet.co.uk\/mostpopular.var.1039169.mostviewed.marksman_called_in_to_kill_kingstons_pigeons.php\">Marksman called in to kill Kingston\u2019s pigeons<\/a>. You can almost skip the article; I&#8217;m linking this for the comments, which are brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <em>The New Yorker<\/em> has a time-lapse video, taken from a building&#8217;s security cameras, of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/video\/2008\/04\/21\/080421_elevators\">man trapped alone in an elevator for 41 hours<\/a>. Oddly compelling. (Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/270967929\/timelapse-video-of-m.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s almost a half-century old, and the woman is fictional, but still I find myself begging this woman to GET A FUCKING DIVORCE!!!! Also, check out this article from a British paper: Marksman called in to kill Kingston\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}