{"id":384,"date":"2008-04-03T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2008-04-03T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T15:02:12","slug":"ed-markeys-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Ed Markey&#8217;s Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/01\/AR2008040102372_pf.html\">Absolutely bizarre story<\/a> from Dana Milbank&#8217;s <em>Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, in approximately 10 seconds, the Ed Markey avatar is going to gavel this hearing,&#8221; the flesh-and-blood Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) announced in the panel&#8217;s Rayburn hearing room. &#8220;There he is. He&#8217;s done it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Markey looked across the room at a jumbo computer screen showing his cartoonish avatar, named EdMarkey Alter. &#8220;My avatar actually looks like he&#8217;s been working out,&#8221; Markey noted approvingly, adding: &#8220;There are also several other avatars who have been invited to watch today&#8217;s hearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed there were: a goth character with feathered wings, a pink cat, a phantom with shimmering gray dreadlocks, a winged grasshopper, women in tube and bikini tops, and a naked man floating through the air. They were all &#8220;watching&#8221; the hearing from cyberspace via the virtual community Second Life &#8212; and the lawmakers were agog.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) admired Markey&#8217;s avatar. &#8220;He looks like he is a bit younger, and he probably appreciates that, having come off a little basketball injury.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely bizarre story from Dana Milbank&#8217;s Washington Post: &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, in approximately 10 seconds, the Ed Markey avatar is going to gavel this hearing,&#8221; the flesh-and-blood Chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) announced in the panel&#8217;s Rayburn hearing room. &#8220;There he is. He&#8217;s done it.&#8221; Markey looked across the room at a jumbo computer screen showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","category-the-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-6c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}