{"id":1089,"date":"2011-07-01T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/the-pop-up-post\/"},"modified":"2011-07-01T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T13:46:00","slug":"the-pop-up-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/07\/01\/the-pop-up-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pop Up Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rejoice pop culture junkies!  At the end of May VH1 announced the return of &#8220;Pop Up Video&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pop Up Video&#8221; would generously sprinkle music videos with facts and trivia about the artist and video heavily laced with sarcasm.  For those of you unfamiliar with the awesomeness that is &#8220;Pop Up Video&#8221;, let me demonstrate the fun with this true classic of the original &#8220;Pop Up Video&#8221; series, Rick Astley&#8217;s &#8220;Never Gonna&#8217; Give You Up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>It&#8217;s well documented that Magical Buffet founder Rebecca Elson is a big fan of Rick Astley&#8217;s &#8220;Never Gonna&#8217; Give You Up&#8221;.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CwnnSSs0kFA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2011\/05\/25\/pop-up-video-returns\/\"target=\"_blank\">ET.com&#8217;s PopWatch writer Jeff Labrecque reports<\/a>, &#8220;After a 10-year hiatus, &#8216;Pop Up Video&#8217; is coming back to VH1, with 60 new episodes ordered for this fall. This time, not only will the show tackle classic hip-hop and rap music videos for the first time, but the &#8216;Pop Up&#8217; treatment will feature user-generated pop up content and updated polls in its bubbles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Rebecca copied and pasted this quote while listening to the &#8220;Family Guy&#8221; television show.  She often works this way.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>With 10 years of catching up to do, I can&#8217;t wait to see where they start!  I mean, one can only assume there will be an all Lady Gaga show, right?  One day soon we may get to see &#8220;Poker Face&#8221; get the kind of treatment that REM&#8217;s &#8220;Losing My Religion&#8221; received. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0JebUqkC8oQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Rebecca originally planned on using the &#8220;Pop Up Video&#8221; version of No Doubt&#8217;s &#8220;Ex-Girlfriend&#8221; but in the end opted for the more iconic &#8220;Losing my Religion&#8221; video.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember &#8220;Pop Up Video&#8221; too?  What videos do you hope to see them tackle?<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Most bloggers end posts with questions like these as a blatant attempt to get readers to leave comments on their website.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>(<em>It rarely works.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 10 years &#8220;Pop Up Video&#8221; is returning to VH1.  To celebrate, we have this very special &#8220;Pop Up&#8221; blog post about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}