{"id":2195,"date":"2013-10-26T03:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T08:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2013-10-26T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T14:36:55","slug":"complimentary-earplugs-16100-welcome-to-night-vale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2013\/10\/26\/complimentary-earplugs-16100-welcome-to-night-vale\/","title":{"rendered":"Complimentary Earplugs (16\/100) &#8211; Welcome to Night Vale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I always take some time to fill up my phone with podcasts in anticipation of the coming week. If you find yourself driving for hours a day and not sleeping enough at night, having access to stimulating audio content may just save your life. No pressure, podcast producers.<\/p>\n<p>My apologies if you&#8217;ve already heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/commonplacebooks.com\/welcome-to-night-vale\/\" target=\"_blank\">Night Vale<\/a>, it seems I&#8217;m a bit late to the party. If you are already a fan, please don&#8217;t post any spoilers in the comments section, and pay no attention to the hooded figures.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not already a fan, then I must assume you haven&#8217;t heard the show yet. Here, try it out now: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ncv2jfbqXAU?t=10m3s\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ncv2jfbqXAU?t=10m5s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assuming you just skipped past that link and kept reading, you are a heedless fool and don&#8217;t even deserve to know about Night Vale. Forget&#8230;<em>forget<\/em>&#8230;forget&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If I had to describe <em>Welcome to Night Vale<\/em>, briefly, I&#8217;d ask you to imagine a place where all the conspiracy theories and\u00a0mythical creatures (the ones we skeptics love to debunk) all turn out to be real, and what is more, far from rare or well-hidden. Now imagine a radio station in that town, complete with a relaxed DJ, unseeable station management, and a mysterious hovering cat living in the men&#8217;s restroom. Alas, I&#8217;ve already said too much. If you never hear from me again, know that I lived a full and rich life, up until just now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend I always take some time to fill up my phone with podcasts in anticipation of the coming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complimentary-earplugs","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}