{"id":501,"date":"2007-12-14T22:10:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2008-04-06T22:51:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T05:51:43","slug":"the-writers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/the-writers-strike","title":{"rendered":"The Writer&#8217;s Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas wanted to know what the writers&#8217; strike was about: what it meant to &#8220;strike&#8221; and why the writers were doing it. I haven&#8217;t been following the strike that closely, but I did find a few things on YouTube about it including this excellent summary:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oJ55Ir2jCxk&amp;rel=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Fred Armisen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N9rkoalWJtI\" target=\"youtube\">impersonates Roger Trevanti<\/a> to explain the latest proposal from the AMPTP. YouTube also has some hilarious videos from the striking writers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=npqx8CsBEyk\" target=\"youtube\">Cute animals join the strike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=JFntFDfaf5o\" target=\"youtube\">Colbert writers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=PzRHlpEmr0w\" target=\"youtube\">Daily Show writers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas wanted to know what the writers&#8217; strike was about: what it meant to &#8220;strike&#8221; and why the writers were doing it. I haven&#8217;t been following the strike that closely, but I did find a few things on YouTube about it including this excellent summary: Fred Armisen impersonates Roger Trevanti to explain the latest proposal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/the-writers-strike\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Writer&#8217;s Strike&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-85","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}