{"id":2138,"date":"2006-03-01T20:11:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2006-03-01T20:11:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T01:11:24","slug":"zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Zombies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may wind up becoming a comic strip at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the 7up guy?  Big Jamaican guy, dressed in white.  He&#8217;d go on about how 7up was &#8220;Crisp and clean, with no caffeine.&#8221;  And how it &#8220;Never had it, never will!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was because of the zombies, of course.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen you think of Jamaica, the two things that spring to mind are <a href=\"http:\/\/kevan.org\/proce55ing\/zombies\/\">Zombies<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemountaincoffee.com\/\">Jamaican Blue Mountain<\/a> coffee.  Very few people realize how closely those two are linked.<\/p>\n<p>Zombies stagger around looking for brains to eat.  Specifically, they&#8217;re looking for brains with a <i>high caffeine content<\/i>!  The less caffeine you have in your brain, the less likely you are to be targeted by a brain-hungry zombie.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it was all code, obviously.  I mean, you can&#8217;t just come right out and say, &#8220;Drink our beverage or zombies will eat your brain.&#8221;  But the connection was there.  That&#8217;s why the spokesman for 7up <b>had<\/b> to have a Jamaican accent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may wind up becoming a comic strip at some point. Do you remember the 7up guy? Big Jamaican guy, dressed in white. He&#8217;d go on about how 7up was &#8220;Crisp and clean, with no caffeine.&#8221; And how it &#8220;Never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=2138\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}