{"id":945,"date":"2007-07-26T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T23:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/07\/26\/chocolate-rain\/"},"modified":"2009-03-16T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T22:55:30","slug":"chocolate-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/chocolate-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"chocolate rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this blog would personally like to take responsibility for attributing to the successes of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/user\/TayZonday\">Tay Zonday<\/a> and the internet smash recording &#8220;Chocolate Rain&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Chocolate Rain first made it into this blog&#8217;s sidebar, Zonday&#8217;s repetitious medley accounted for less than 30,000 views. thanks to the blogosphere and all the spam emails I sent promoting Chocolate Rain, that video is <a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tay-zonday-featured.jpg\" title=\"tay zonday featured\" rel=\"lightbox\">nearing a million views<\/a>, and taking in around six comments per minute. Incredible how fast the internet moves.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it the first time around, please, watch, and laugh, it&#8217;s healthy for you:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/EwTZ2xpQwpA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this blog would personally like to take responsibility for attributing to the successes of Tay Zonday and the internet smash recording &#8220;Chocolate Rain&#8221; When Chocolate Rain first made it into this blog&#8217;s sidebar, Zonday&#8217;s repetitious medley accounted for less than 30,000 views. thanks to the blogosphere and all the spam emails I sent promoting Chocolate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[286,285,35],"series":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-singing","tag-tay-zonday","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tay-zonday-featured.jpg?fit=547%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-ff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2883,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/2883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}