{"id":5299,"date":"2018-12-09T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2018-12-09T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T17:03:27","slug":"what-the-disembodied-head-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/12\/09\/what-the-disembodied-head-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Disembodied Head Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you have heard about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R706isyDrqI\">this<\/a>&nbsp;Apple ad from 1984 (even if you weren&#8217;t watching the Super Bowl halftime on TV that year). The ad never played again, but it was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1984_(advertisement)\">a watershed event<\/a>, the dawn of a new age.<\/p>\n<p>But even if you know the ad, have you paid attention to exactly what the disembodied head on the screen said &mdash; to his <em>full speech<\/em> up to the point of the hammer throw?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/12\/i-jgzCNHz\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2018\/12\/i-jgzCNHz\/0\/a392a058\/M\/disembodied-head-apple-1984-ad-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Relevant today? Why or why not? Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you have heard about this&nbsp;Apple ad from 1984 (even if you weren&#8217;t watching the Super Bowl halftime on TV that year). The ad never played again, but it was a watershed event, the dawn of a new age. But even if you know the ad, have you paid attention to exactly what the disembodied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}