{"id":13252,"date":"2009-02-05T23:57:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/02\/05\/the-keene-act-and-you.html"},"modified":"2009-02-05T23:57:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:57:30","slug":"the_keene_act_and_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/the_keene_act_and_you.html","title":{"rendered":"The Keene Act and YOU!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t care if the <em>Watchmen <\/em>movie turns out to be godawful &#8230; they have put so much work into both capturing the <em>look <\/em>of the graphic novel and the <em>feel <\/em>of it (as shown in all of these fine viral marketing releases) that I doff my geeky-joy hat to them.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n5WsciSNVS0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excellent.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youareatree.com\/?p=161\" target=\"_blank\">Scott<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t care if the Watchmen movie turns out to be godawful &#8230; they have put so much work into both capturing the look of the graphic novel and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13896,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/reading-the-watchmen.html","url_meta":{"origin":13252,"position":0},"title":"Reading the Watchmen","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Feb-09 2:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Doyce has been rereading Moore\/Gibbons' original Watchmen graphic novel, and says many sooth things. 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