{"id":1189,"date":"2018-05-28T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2020-02-15T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T02:14:29","slug":"parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/2018\/05\/28\/parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Dewdney Drivel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Monty-Python-inspired parody of a local newspaper. The Pythons&#8217; version can be found in &#8220;The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok&#8221; (available online still\/again via Amazon).<\/p>\n<p>I found my version in my files recently and thought it was worth sharing as my contribution to the exabytes of digital detritus dumped on disks in cloud computing facilities around the world this week. (okay\u2014I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s actually exabytes (millions of terabytes) per week.)<\/p>\n<p>I wrote it for a theatre program for a one act play festival whose theme was \u201cIn the News\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1190\" src=\"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DewdneyDrivel.jpg\" alt=\"Front page of Monty-Pyton-inspired local newspaper parody\" width=\"650\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DewdneyDrivel.jpg 650w, http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DewdneyDrivel-244x300.jpg 244w, http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DewdneyDrivel-624x768.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, in the Monty Python version of &#8220;Also in the News&#8221;, one of the items was &#8220;Germany re-united.&#8221; They wrote that in the early 70s, 15 years before it happened. Spooky, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Monty-Python-inspired parody of a local newspaper. The Pythons&#8217; version can be found in &#8220;The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok&#8221; (available online still\/again via Amazon). I found my version in my files recently and thought it was worth sharing as my contribution to the exabytes of digital detritus dumped on disks in cloud computing facilities around the world this&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/2018\/05\/28\/parody\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[664,571,570,182,572],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake","tag-500words","tag-dewdney","tag-local-newspapers","tag-monty-python","tag-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}