{"id":402,"date":"2010-10-10T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/10\/celebrating-ed-wood\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:38","slug":"celebrating-ed-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/10\/celebrating-ed-wood.html","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Ed Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_D._Wood,_Jr.\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ed Wood<\/a>\u00a0was born on this day in 1924. Arguably the worst filmmaker ever, his memory should be honored among those glorious failures, who most of us are more closely related to than the great and famous\u2026<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oHRq80QNnJM?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oHRq80QNnJM?fs=1<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T7fwh-pwI5c?fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T7fwh-pwI5c?fs=1<\/a>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-8809805774013594306?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Wood\u00a0was born on this day in 1924. 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