{"id":11962,"date":"2007-06-19T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/i-only-get-five-words-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T21:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T21:06:00","slug":"i-only-get-five-words-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/19\/i-only-get-five-words-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Only Get Five Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Webby\" target=\"_blank\">Webby Awards<\/a> are only allowed five-word acceptance speeches.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/technology.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/tech_and_web\/article1893753.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Times Online<\/i> reports<\/a> on David Bowie&rsquo;s witty acceptance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bowie, accepting his award, said: &ldquo;I only get five words?&rdquo;, then continued: &ldquo;Shit, that was five. Four more there. That&rsquo;s three,&rdquo; before finishing up with: &ldquo;Two,&rdquo; and then exiting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/archives\/david-bowie-has-got-a-way-with-five-words.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stereogum<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/web\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">web<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-6763026726690645719?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners of Webby Awards are only allowed five-word acceptance speeches. The Times Online reports on David Bowie&rsquo;s witty acceptance: Bowie, accepting his award, said: &ldquo;I only get five words?&rdquo;, then continued: &ldquo;Shit, that was five. Four more there. That&rsquo;s three,&rdquo; before finishing up with: &ldquo;Two,&rdquo; and then exiting. Brilliant. via Stereogum tags: music web humor<\/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":[118],"class_list":["post-11962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}