{"id":1077,"date":"2013-10-31T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T10:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2013-11-06T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:25:27","slug":"darkness-falls-across-the-lan-a-seasonal-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Darkness falls across the LAN: a seasonal poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To fully appreciate this you should voice it like Vincent Price in Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Thriller&#8221;, which is obviously the lyrics from which this has been spoofed.  Listen to that track starting at 4 minutes 15 seconds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&#038;v=xIx_HbmRnQY#t=254\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, here goes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Darkness falls across the LAN<br \/>\nPowerpoint is close at hand<br \/>\nUsers crawl in search of clue<br \/>\nTo terrorize the printer queue<\/p>\n<p>And whosoever shall be found<br \/>\nWithout a soul from Redmond<br \/>\nMust stand and face the hounds of Dell<br \/>\nAnd rot inside a Windows shell<\/p>\n<p>The foulest stench, your face it slaps<br \/>\nThe cruft of forty thousand apps<br \/>\nAnd grizzly gangs from every spammer<br \/>\nAre closing in with suspect grammar<\/p>\n<p>And though you fight to run your code<br \/>\nYour PC starts to jitter<br \/>\nFor no mere user can resist<br \/>\nThe evil of &#8230; the Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To fully appreciate this you should voice it like Vincent Price in Michael Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Thriller&#8221;, which is obviously the lyrics from which this has been spoofed. Listen to that track starting at 4 minutes 15 seconds here So, here goes: Darkness falls across the LAN Powerpoint is close at hand Users crawl in search of&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=1077\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}