{"id":40096,"date":"2013-12-16T22:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T05:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/when-geekdoms-collide.html"},"modified":"2013-12-17T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:36:08","slug":"when-geekdoms-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/16\/when-geekdoms-collide.html","title":{"rendered":"WHEN GEEKDOMS COLLIDE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Back in the psychotrophic post-Star Trek years, Leonard Nimoy performed &quot;The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins&quot; (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/AGF5ROpjRAU\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/AGF5ROpjRAU<\/a>). \u00a0It was &#8230; trippy.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the stars of <i>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/i> offering their own poetry readings of that particular epic.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112374836634096795698\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"112374836634096795698\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a><\/span>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fuPTg4Y6ho8?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/CCvomso5xve' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the psychotrophic post-Star Trek years, Leonard Nimoy performed &quot;The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins&quot; (http:\/\/youtu.be\/AGF5ROpjRAU). \u00a0It was &#8230; trippy. Here are some of the stars of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug offering their own poetry readings of that particular epic. 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