{"id":27768,"date":"2012-05-06T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/gir.html"},"modified":"2012-05-06T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T16:05:28","slug":"gir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/gir.html","title":{"rendered":"GIR!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice look back at the zaniness of &quot;Invader Zim&quot; and Zim&#39;s robot, GIR.  Zim was an idiosyncratic taste, but I liked it, darkness and all.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.gawkerassets.com%2Fimg%2F17leynt41qmzkjpg%2Foriginal.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/5907118\/why-invader-zims-gir-should-be-your-favorite-robot-sidekick'>Why Invader Zim&#39;s GIR should be your favorite robot sidekick<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tScience fiction has portrayed its fair share of glitchy and bumbling robots over the years, but none hold a candle to Invader Zim&#39;s GIR. Quite possibly the most erratic and unhelpful robot to ever hit&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/QwPw88LTAkP' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice look back at the zaniness of &quot;Invader Zim&quot; and Zim&#39;s robot, GIR. Zim was an idiosyncratic taste, but I liked it, darkness and all. Embedded Link Why Invader Zim&#39;s GIR should be your favorite robot sidekick Science fiction has portrayed its fair share of glitchy and bumbling robots over the years, but none &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/gir.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GIR!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12174,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/angry_earthen_polka.html","url_meta":{"origin":27768,"position":0},"title":"Angry Earthen Polka","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Oct-07 6:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"GIR! 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