{"id":8255,"date":"2009-08-31T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:43:32","slug":"when-all-else-fails-dance-12k-flashmob-mexico-dance-michael-jacksons-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/when-all-else-fails-dance-12k-flashmob-mexico-dance-michael-jacksons-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"When All Else Fails, Dance: 12K Flashmob Mexico, Dance Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dragon*Con had plans<\/a>. They aimed to join the Guinness Book of World Records on September 6th, 2009<\/a>. It was to be spectacular. It was to be geek-gasmic. It was to be untold numbers of people getting together to dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Then MJ’s birthday rolled around and 12,000 people flashmobbed Mexico to dance the Thriller. <\/p>\n

Those are some big shoes to fill, D*Con. You must recruit every Inu Yasha, Soul Reaper, Captain Jack Sparrow, goth fairy, 501st Stormtrooper, Umbrella Agent, Indiana Jones, Bad Ash\/Good Ash, Jayne Hat wearer<\/a>, steampunker<\/a>, Cobra agent<\/a>, attention whorer<\/a>, Mad Hatter, Marvel\/DC superhero, Transformer, whatisits<\/a>, vampire, Harry Potter wizard and, of course, zombie you can get your hands on. If that’s not enough, you’re gonna have to turn to the furries. <\/p>\n

Gods be with you when this happens. That’s the kind of help you’ll never live down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(via TechGOnzo<\/a>, still Thrillering you tube<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dragon*Con had plans. They aimed to join the Guinness Book of World Records on September 6th, 2009. It was to be spectacular. It was to be geek-gasmic. It was to be untold numbers of people getting together to dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Then MJ’s birthday rolled around and 12,000 people flashmobbed Mexico to dance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,60],"tags":[103,1469,1467,1287,776,1468,1325,631,260,125],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-music","tag-awesome","tag-birthday-surprise","tag-dragoncon","tag-flash-mob-dance-attack","tag-mexico","tag-mich","tag-michael-jackson","tag-one-massive-thriller","tag-when-all-else-fails-dance","tag-you-tube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","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=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}