{"id":64,"date":"2005-02-17T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T17:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/17\/this-emperor-rocks\/"},"modified":"2005-02-18T09:37:31","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T15:37:31","slug":"this-emperor-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/17\/this-emperor-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"This emperor rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-content\/images\/emperorsigismund.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Emperor Sigismund playing electric guitar\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\nYeah, so that&#8217;s totally silly, but I still liked it.  It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\/\">these folks<\/a> run loads of weird photo\/image manipulation competitions.  The challenge in several of these has been to &#8220;rock-ify&#8221; decidedly non-rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll images.  Emperor Sigismund here is one of the entries in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worth1000.com\/cache\/gallery\/contestcache.asp?contest_id=1614\">Rock On 4 competition<\/a>.  Not all are so well done, but there are numerous others worth the visit.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/kummstevejon\/\">Jon Nelson<\/a> for the pointer on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kumm.org\/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&#038;file=index\">KUMM forums<\/a>.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>><\/table>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, so that&#8217;s totally silly, but I still liked it. It turns out that these folks run loads of weird photo\/image manipulation competitions. The challenge in several of these has been to &#8220;rock-ify&#8221; decidedly non-rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll images. Emperor Sigismund here is one of the entries in the Rock On 4 competition. Not all are so well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/17\/this-emperor-rocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This emperor rocks!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1934,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2015\/07\/26\/review-the-emperor-of-all-maladies-a-biography-of-cancer\/","url_meta":{"origin":64,"position":0},"title":"Review: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"26 Jul 15","format":false,"excerpt":"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee My rating: 5 of 5 stars A truly beautiful book about what is certainly a terrible and often terrifying collection of illnesses. 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