{"id":7584,"date":"2016-06-14T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:30:29","slug":"major-tom-before-blasting-off-for-the-odd-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/06\/14\/major-tom-before-blasting-off-for-the-odd-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Tom before blasting off for the Odd Planet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IbHJ5mjQPzY\">Yaaaaaaay!<\/a> Another $100.00 music video by Men Without Hats, this time for <em>Moonbeam.<\/em> [$25.00 clearly went to space rental, $25.00 to safety harnesses, and $50.00 to dry ice. See commentary on <em>Pop Goes the World<\/em> video for <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/10\/06\/one-of-the-silliest-music-videos-ever\/\">budget breakdown<\/a> on that one.]<\/p>\n<p>I feel like this is what Major Tom was doing before he got strung out. :p<\/p>\n<p>For comparison and contrast, see David Bowie&#8217;s also obviously cheap video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o\"><em>Space Oddity.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaaaaaaay! Another $100.00 music video by Men Without Hats, this time for Moonbeam. [$25.00 clearly went to space rental, $25.00 to safety harnesses, and $50.00 to dry ice. See commentary on Pop Goes the World video for budget breakdown on that one.] I feel like this is what Major Tom was doing before he got&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/06\/14\/major-tom-before-blasting-off-for-the-odd-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Major Tom before blasting off for the Odd Planet?<\/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":[711,653],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lust","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","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=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}