{"id":1362,"date":"2006-12-10T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2006-12-11T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T11:49:28","slug":"dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"Dancers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>&#8216;ve finally figured out what makes Windows XP Media Center unique. Or rather, what you get if you decide to buy Media Center<sup>1<\/sup> instead of (say) Windows XP Home edition:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/downloads\/desktop\/dancers.mspx\">Dancers<\/a>. I&#8217;m not kidding. It&#8217;s like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bonzi_Buddy\">bonzi-buddy<\/a> but then in &#8220;The One Microsoft Way&#8221;&trade;.\n<\/li>\n<li>A simplified front-end for Windows Media Player 10 with &#8216;Fisher-Price&#8217;-like buttons. You can&#8217;t miss it.\n<\/li>\n<li>Windows Messenger. LOL! ROFLMASKHAIDO! (When Media Center starts, it automatically loads up Windows Messenger. I haven&#8217;t figured out why that might be necessary)\n<\/li>\n<li>An extra Media Center theme that hurts the eyes.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All jokes aside, &#8216;Windows Dancer&#8217; dancer Amanda is actually an amazing dancer.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> Actually, I don&#8217;t think you can buy MediaCenter right off the shelves (It&#8217;s OEM-only, I believe)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;ve finally figured out what makes Windows XP Media Center unique. Or rather, what you get if you decide to buy Media Center1 instead of (say) Windows XP Home edition: Dancers. I&#8217;m not kidding. It&#8217;s like the bonzi-buddy but then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}