{"id":138,"date":"2008-10-28T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-10-28T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T01:18:00","slug":"friday-night-sketch-war-mad-scientist-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Sketch War: Mad Scientist Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming a wee bit late with this wrapup, but I held out hope that Mr. Brownlee was going to get a late shot off in the battle by Monday. Alas, the originator of last Friday&#8217;s excellent theme was too bloodied from his <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelbrownlee.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/nuts.html\">week in the paper cut factory<\/a>. But we did have a good fight. Three funny sketches were lobbed onto the field, each exploding with mad scientifical goodness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coyote led off with <a href=\"http:\/\/coyotesqrl.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/fsw-dinner-at-doctor-eskatos.html\">death rays and scallions<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Ken followed up with an eerie tale of <a href=\"http:\/\/therobertsonreport.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/fsw-mad-scientist-edition.html\">spousal zombification<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>David closed out the battle by showing us the <a href=\"http:\/\/shaxpur.livejournal.com\/101982.html\">evility of banal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An extreme dearth of comments from our combined visitors left us scrambling for a theme for this All Hallow&#8217;s Eve edition of the Sketch War. See, we wanted our three or four fans to pick themes and y&#8217;all let us down. I have a good mind to tell *our* mothers to stop paying *your* mothers to come read our sketches! Nah. Who am I kidding: the checks will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Ken&#8217;s selected an appropos theme:<br \/><b>Trick OR Treat<\/b>: an option; scenes involve a trick, a treat, or both.<\/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>. Otherwise, come back around on Friday for some ghoulish fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming a wee bit late with this wrapup, but I held out hope that Mr. Brownlee was going to get a late shot off in the battle by Monday. Alas, the originator of last Friday&#8217;s excellent theme was too bloodied from his week in the paper cut factory. But we did have a good fight. [&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-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrapups","tag-humor","tag-sketch-war","tag-wrapup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}