{"id":6457,"date":"2012-04-18T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6457"},"modified":"2012-04-17T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T15:03:45","slug":"dodos-maltese-falcons-and-the-art-of-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/04\/18\/dodos-maltese-falcons-and-the-art-of-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodos, Maltese Falcons, and the Art of Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/L_Crosby\">Lindsey<\/a> for recommending this. I had watched it before he said something, but I was surprised that I had not posted it on this blog because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LOVE. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THIS. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TALK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not this obsessive when I get interested in something. Like Adam though, I never feel I know have or done enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MythBusters co-host Adam Savage gives a fast-paced presentation on personal obsessions. Savage explains how his fascination with dodo bird skeletons eventually led to his designing of an exact bronze-cast replica of the titular statue from the 1941 Humphrey Bogart movie, &#8220;The Maltese Falcon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/29SopXQfc_s?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to Lindsey for recommending this. I had watched it before he said something, but I was surprised that I had not posted it on this blog because&#8230; I. LOVE. THIS. TALK. I&#8217;m not this obsessive when I get interested in something. Like Adam though, I never feel I know have or done enough. MythBusters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[999],"tags":[2452,2453,763,2380],"class_list":["post-6457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build-engineering","tag-adam-savage","tag-dodos","tag-mythbusters","tag-posted-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1G9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}