{"id":4969,"date":"2007-02-15T05:39:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T10:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2011-07-31T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T05:33:09","slug":"oafenet-update-for-thursday-february-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/oafenet-update-for-thursday-february-15\/","title":{"rendered":"OAFEnet Update for Thursday, February 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OAFEnet Email Update eats all the good chocolates first.<\/p>\n<p>Valentine's Day came and went this week, and a whole bunch of people got their first real snow of winter. Both excellent reasons to stay inside! Once all your... <b>other<\/b> indoor activities were concluded, we had plenty of newness to shoot at your eyeballs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It's Toy Fair time, and of course, we're providing our annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/cgi-bin\/forums\/ikonboard.cgi?act=SF;f=12\">Armchair Toy Fair Coverage<\/a>: basically, we link to other people's photos and provide the commentary that they glossed over. It makes us feel superior. Swill your chardonnay!<\/li>\n<li>When is a ripoff not a ripoff? When it's a parody, because then it's legally protected. But what happens when a parody becomes more popular than whatever it is that was being parodied? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/dcdlobo.php\">Death match<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Every time you think Rustin's insanity has reached rock bottom, he pulls a shovel out of his pocket and merrily starts digging. What dumbfounding opinion has he expressed this time? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/rustin\/potc_zizs2.php\">Only one place to find out<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday's review is either very good, or very bad. Or maybe both. That's a pretty wishy-washy description, isn't it? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/gijs6ff.php\">Too bad, it's all you get<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Transformers Tuesday took full advantage of our Old Toys Month theme by going all the way back to G1 - sort of. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tf_wstop.php\">Get real tiny<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This may be the evilest, most hated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/wwemdm.php\">WWEdnesday<\/a> ever.<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of wrestling toys, yo is offering to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=4964\">help you get a free one<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, a review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/smmorb.php\">a character introduced in the '70s<\/a>, whose toy came out years ago from a company that doesn't even hold the license any more. Retro!<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p>That's all for now, but next week, you can expect more of the same - we're nothing if not predictable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OAFEnet Email Update eats all the good chocolates first. Valentine's Day came and went this week, and a whole bunch of people got their first real snow of winter. Both excellent reasons to stay inside! Once all your... other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/oafenet-update-for-thursday-february-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oeu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}