{"id":343,"date":"2008-12-15T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=343"},"modified":"2009-01-11T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T10:54:37","slug":"the-ultimate-rickroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Rickroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, please read about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rickroll\">rickrolling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just find the recent batch of (UK) Christmas Number One Singles uninspiring?  So let&#8217;s get Rick Astley to Number One this Christmas, thus playing the ultimate rickroll on all those X-Factor\/Pop-Idol-buying drones.<\/p>\n<p>Download Rick Astley&#8217;s &#8220;Never Gonna Give You Up&#8221; from iTunes, play.com or elsewhere between now and Saturday in order for this to count.  Come on people!  This will cost you about 65p to 70p.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimaterickroll.com\/\">Ultimate Rickroll<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>GO DOWNLOAD IT!  <em>&#8220;We&#8217;re no strangers to love; you know the rules, and so do I&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit, after Christmas<\/strong>: We got Rick to, erm, number 73 on the Christmas chart.  Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, please read about rickrolling. Don&#8217;t you just find the recent batch of (UK) Christmas Number One Singles uninspiring? So let&#8217;s get Rick Astley to Number One this Christmas, thus playing the ultimate rickroll on all those X-Factor\/Pop-Idol-buying drones. Download Rick Astley&#8217;s &#8220;Never&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=343\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","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\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}