{"id":1370,"date":"2008-12-29T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2008-12-29T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:07:00","slug":"travel-back-in-time-to-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/12\/29\/travel-back-in-time-to-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel back in time to 1996&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a time when Web sites were characterized by multicolor walls of cheerfully misspelled text, uselessly animated buttons, blinking banner links, spasmodic mouseover animations and obscure Web rings! Case in point: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menwithouthats.com\">Men Without Hats&#8217;<\/a> site. Despite the simplistic design, I actually love this site. It was clearly made without a designer [or any sense of design principles] by the hatless dudes themselves, who are just bubbling over with an infectious enthusiasm for the music. That&#8217;s one of the things I love best about this band: From their music videos and concert vids, it&#8217;s obvious that they&#8217;re having so much fun, grinning and singing and flailing wildly.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, from what I can unearth, Men Without Hats has a NEW&nbsp;ALBUM OUT, <a href=\"http:\/\/menwithouthats.com\/shop.html\">No Hats Beyond This Point,<\/a> marking a return to their synth pop roots after a few decades away. I&#8217;m going to get it when I&#8217;m not hemorrhaging money in the direction of dolls and doll supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Please excuse me. I need to <strike>drool over Ivan Doroschuk<\/strike> listen to more MWH music vids now.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Okay, it&#8217;s not new. It came out in 2004. Well, it&#8217;s new to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a time when Web sites were characterized by multicolor walls of cheerfully misspelled text, uselessly animated buttons, blinking banner links, spasmodic mouseover animations and obscure Web rings! Case in point: Men Without Hats&#8217; site. Despite the simplistic design, I actually love this site. It was clearly made without a designer [or any sense of design&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/12\/29\/travel-back-in-time-to-1996\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Travel back in time to 1996&#8230;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}