{"id":573881001,"date":"2011-01-04T23:46:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T05:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881001"},"modified":"2011-01-05T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:08:15","slug":"just-two-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/just-two-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Just two videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan11\/jan09.jpg\" alt=\"Allie\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s helping.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few things today. I neglected to add this yesterday in my jelly bean rant &#8212; and an update on that, the Sudafed capsules were about twice as big as the beans, yet we swallow one and chew the other &#8212; so I&#8217;ll finely get to it today. <\/p>\n<p>In South Korea there is an Auburn graduate teaching English to young students. He&#8217;s also doing a little brainwashing &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JMbxv2pB5d4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JMbxv2pB5d4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Bercarich, the reporter, is teaching and doing video during her travels. Chris Lowe was a philosophy major at Auburn. This is all done in fun, but  &#8220;Auburn wins 0-0. Oregon sees Auburn before the game and forfeits&#8221; would look great on a t-shirt. More than 12,000 people have seen that video. <\/p>\n<p>I like the view counts on the videos, I always check the number. Don&#8217;t know why. I seldom return to the same video again to monitor their progress, but I did this evening. I watched this video 12 hours before this writing and it had less than 400 views. Now, it has more than 386,000. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uTysXITBCmk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uTysXITBCmk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume this is all on the level. Ted Williams apparently has a new <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/goldenvoice614\">Twitter<\/a> account. There&#8217;s a Wikipedia entry and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2011\/01\/04\/2011-01-04_homeless_man_ted_williams_becomes_viral_video_star_in_quest_to_be_radio_announce.html\">NY Daily News<\/a> story on him. I&#8217;m going assume that it is legitimate and not a radio stunt. (If it is I won&#8217;t be surprised, a good radio stunt is art.) But let&#8217;s say this is the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube just Steinbecked this man, giving a face and a (marvelous) voice to a man trying to put his life back together. He&#8217;s going to be on the air with a local station tomorrow. The comments, on the story (and even on the YouTube video!) are incredibly encouraging. A lot of good could come from this for Williams. Apparently he&#8217;s being besieged with offers and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Two minutes seldom changes a person&#8217;s life for the better so significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She&#8217;s helping. Just a few things today. I neglected to add this yesterday in my jelly bean rant &#8212; and an update on that, the Sudafed capsules were about twice as big as the beans, yet we swallow one and chew the other &#8212; so I&#8217;ll finely get to it today. In South Korea there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,28,10,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburn","category-iphone","category-photo","category-tuesday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881002,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881001\/revisions\/573881002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}