{"id":1035,"date":"2007-11-28T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1035"},"modified":"2007-11-28T20:51:25","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T01:51:25","slug":"on-the-other-hand-maybe-germans-are-starting-to-resemble-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1035","title":{"rendered":"On The Other Hand, Maybe Germans Are Starting To Resemble Americans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand there&#8217;s Bernd das Brot&#8230;and on the other, there&#8217;s The Gummib&auml;r&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CrkkbJDvoVY&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CrkkbJDvoVY&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Ich Liebe Eine Gummib&auml;r. I first saw this YouTube on the Slog blog, bearing the headline <i>Worse then Hitler, or just the New Crazy Frog?<\/i>   I had no idea until I searched for it again on Google that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gummy_bear\">Gummy Bears originated in Germany<\/a> (Gummib&auml;r is &#8220;Rubber Bear&#8221; in German).  But this is a bit much.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mein-gummibaer.de\/\">Supposedly this is a craze in Germany right now<\/a>, but every German I&#8217;ve seen commenting on it hates it.  I&#8217;m sparing you the long version.  It&#8217;s enough to make me go stare at my wallpaper.<\/p>\n<p><i>[Update&#8230;]<\/i>  Alas, I can no longer embed the short version as the bastard disabled embedding on it.  So now I have to serve up the long version instead.  Hate me.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand there&#8217;s Bernd das Brot&#8230;and on the other, there&#8217;s The Gummib&auml;r&#8230; Ich Liebe Eine Gummib&auml;r. I first saw this YouTube on the Slog blog, bearing the headline Worse then Hitler, or just the New Crazy Frog? I had no idea until I searched for it again on Google that Gummy Bears originated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-goshbait-fugue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}