{"id":130,"date":"2008-10-29T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/while-my-plastic-guitar-gently-weeps-with-joy.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:06:18","slug":"did-you-hear-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/did-you-hear-that.html","title":{"rendered":"While My Plastic Guitar Gently Weeps (with Joy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122531701276881747.html\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Beatles License Songs to Viacom Videogame Unit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Beatles have licensed songs to MTV Networks&#8217; Rock Band videogame series, according to several people familiar with the matter, a coup for the Viacom Inc. unit in its battle with rival Activision Inc. for supremacy in the world of rock and roll video games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: Today the Beatles and MTV Games officially announced plans to make a Beatles music game. Woohoo! There&#8217;s articles all over the net, but check out <a href=\"http:\/\/beatles.com\/core\/news\/\">this one<\/a>, the press release at Beatles.com. It&#8217;s eerie reading quotes from representatives of all four Beatles about how cool a videogame would be. Kind of a weird Bizarro world situation. For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s cool. I love it and hope it will keep inspiring and encouraging the young generation for many decades,&#8221; said Yoko Ono Lennon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That quote would be inconceivable one week ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beatles License Songs to Viacom Videogame Unit The Beatles have licensed songs to MTV Networks&#8217; Rock Band videogame series, according to several people familiar with the matter, a coup for the Viacom Inc. unit in its battle with rival Activision Inc. for supremacy in the world of rock and roll&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/did-you-hear-that.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;While My Plastic Guitar Gently Weeps (with Joy)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[179,57,52],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}