{"id":157,"date":"2008-11-29T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/?p=157"},"modified":"2008-11-29T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T23:30:00","slug":"friday-night-sketch-war-oprah-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Sketch War: Oprah Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yours truly &#8211; like many before him &#8211; fell under the spell of one Ms. Oprah Gail Winfrey&#8217;s hypnotic powers. I thought to myself did I, &#8220;oh, Oprah would make a great theme for Sketch War. So many topics. So many sketch ideas. This will be great!&#8221; She&#8217;s ephemeral. Like a ghost, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duke_Nukem_Forever\">Duke Nukem Forever<\/a>, just when you think you&#8217;ve got a firm grasp on her she disappears.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter made me throw up in my mouth a little bit with his <a href=\"http:\/\/hujhax.livejournal.com\/461975.html\">erotic&#8230;fantasies of Big O<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Coyote reacted to a dog bite and a bee sting with <a href=\"http:\/\/coyotesqrl.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/fsw-oprahs-favorite-things.html\">a few of Oprah&#8217;s favorite things<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Ken gave us a terrifying glimpse of <a href=\"http:\/\/therobertsonreport.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/fsw-oprah-edition.html\">the future Oprah is giving us<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We all struggled this week and weren&#8217;t able to bring our usual B-games. Still, there are a few chuckles to be had. Next week, in what is hopefully an easier topic, Peter&#8217;s selected <b>learning something new about history<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to play along, write a sketch and send a link to it to <i>sketchwar at dreamloom.com<\/i>. And be sure to come back next Friday when we&#8217;re hoping to have a few new competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yours truly &#8211; like many before him &#8211; fell under the spell of one Ms. Oprah Gail Winfrey&#8217;s hypnotic powers. I thought to myself did I, &#8220;oh, Oprah would make a great theme for Sketch War. So many topics. So many sketch ideas. This will be great!&#8221; She&#8217;s ephemeral. Like a ghost, or Duke Nukem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[99,182,235],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrapups","tag-humor","tag-sketch-war","tag-wrapup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}