{"id":5855,"date":"2008-10-29T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T05:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T05:10:11","slug":"waefd-the-day-4179-zombies-danced-to-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/waefd-the-day-4179-zombies-danced-to-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"WAEFD: The Day 4,179 Zombies Danced to Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was sent to me two days before my Ghosted Senses<\/a> would receive a break from the long hard month. Two fucking days when I have so many links saved and ideas plotted for their dispersal. Yet I could not turn this down. Here lay the special Halloween edition of When All Else Fails, Dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When counted altogether<\/a>, 4,179 Zombies danced to Thriller on October 25th of our year 2008. That’s thousands <\/em>of folk tromping to a 20 plus year old tune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 25, 2008, 4,179 people from 10 nations (Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America, and Wales) simultaneously performed The Thriller Dance as part of the Thrill The World event<\/a>, organized by Ines Markeljevic of Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seen below are just the 881 folk from Austin, TX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Enjoy the two-fer dropped in just under the wire. <\/p>\n

Dance, my children. Dance like the world is one giant Zombie Jamboree.<\/p>\n

(via 7d, thrill the world<\/a>, funk of 40K you tubes<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was sent to me two days before my Ghosted Senses would receive a break from the long hard month. Two fucking days when I have so many links saved and ideas plotted for their dispersal. Yet I could not turn this down. Here lay the special Halloween edition of When All Else Fails, Dance. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,52,7],"tags":[562,557,631,4927,260,125,584],"class_list":["post-5855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intertube-madness","category-just-freaking-neat","category-video","tag-ghost-my-senses-2008","tag-halloween","tag-one-massive-thriller","tag-video","tag-when-all-else-fails-dance","tag-you-tube","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}