{"id":27529,"date":"2010-09-24T01:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T09:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=6708"},"modified":"2010-09-27T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:09:13","slug":"elmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/24\/elmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elmo\">Elmo<\/a> is almost 40 years old. Not only that, apparently some &#8220;Sesame Street Traditionalists&#8221; refer to him as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/s_412445.html\">&#8220;Little Red Menace&#8221;<\/a>. Since I haven&#8217;t watched the show regularly since the 1980s I don&#8217;t have a strong opinion about his influence, malevolent or not, but generally I&#8217;m pro-Elmo. He&#8217;s not quite in the class of Mickey, but he&#8217;s definitely got a spot in the history books at this point. Here&#8217;s Elmo in the now nixed Katy Perry video:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-6708\"><\/span><br \/>\n<object width=\"600\" height=\"361\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YHROHJlU_Ng?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\/YHROHJlU_Ng?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that Elmo is almost 40 years old. Not only that, apparently some &#8220;Sesame Street Traditionalists&#8221; refer to him as the &#8220;Little Red Menace&#8221;. Since I haven&#8217;t watched the show regularly since the 1980s I don&#8217;t have a strong opinion about his influence, malevolent or not, but generally I&#8217;m pro-Elmo. He&#8217;s not quite [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,705,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-elmo","category-katy-perry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27920,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions\/27920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}