{"id":2148,"date":"2007-06-11T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2007-06-12T08:18:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T13:18:59","slug":"pirates-are-way-out-zombies-are-out-are-we-left-with-ninjas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/pirates-are-way-out-zombies-are-out-are-we-left-with-ninjas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates are way out; Zombies are out. Are we left with Ninjas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even before Pirates 3 drove a sabre into what small amount of coolness was left in piracy, we noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1636\">&#8220;Pirates are so in that they are out.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had been wondering which of the trends hiding in the shadows of culture would become mainstream then go from cool to cold. The two top candidates: Ninjas and Zombies. This contest has Zombies replacing Pirates in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pirates_versus_Ninjas\">the great Pirates versus Ninjas controversy.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nZombies have been having their own parties and <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2009\">flash mobs<\/a> which makes them a good bet. A zombie novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokentype.com\/monster\/\">Monster Island<\/a>, was <a href=\"http:\/\/lulublookerprize.typepad.com\/lulu_blooker_blog\/2007\/05\/the_winners_of_.html\">a Blooker Prize finalist this year<\/a>. Although one judge dissed the book for it&#8217;s zombie birds. We replied that we liked and somehow understood zombie birds, but we&#8217;ve never understood why the British considered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benny_Hill\">Benny Hill<\/a> funny.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.pl?comic=558\">Qwantz.com uses T-Rex to explain the rise<\/a> and the end of Zombies begining by saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwantz.com\/index.pl?comic=1011\">&#8220;I have some bad news: zombies are in danger of becoming old hat!<\/a>&#8221; His solution: Zombie birds! and other things revealed in the strip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askaninja.com\/node\/3718\">I think we&#8217;re left with Ninjas!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before Pirates 3 drove a sabre into what small amount of coolness was left in piracy, we noticed that &#8220;Pirates are so in that they are out.&#8221; We had been wondering which of the trends hiding in the shadows of culture would become mainstream then go from cool to cold. The two top candidates: [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}