{"id":845,"date":"2009-03-30T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T08:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2009-03-30T01:23:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T08:23:40","slug":"the-dancing-hamster-toy-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"The Dancing Hamster toy &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve mentioned the <strong>Dancing Hamster<\/strong> toy that sings &#8220;LOUIE LOUIE.&#8221;   The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=299\">first time I mentioned it<\/a> was a year and a half ago.   It was four days before the LOUIE Fest 2007, and someone had shared a video of this toy for the LOUIE Fest contest.<\/p>\n<p>This time I&#8217;m mentioning this toy to give it special attention for the regular LOUIE of the Week feature.   As it turns out, there&#8217;s a lot of different <strong>Dancing Hamster<\/strong> toys, and they don&#8217;t all sing &#8220;LOUIE LOUIE&#8221;.  Someone out in cyberspace decided that that wanted to pay tribute to the various <strong>Dancing Hamster<\/strong> toys, so they created a special &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/hamstercollection\"><strong>hamstercollection<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; YouTube channel, and they&#8217;re using it to showcase the different hamsters.  From what I can tell, it looks like there&#8217;s currently 53 hamsters, each with a different song.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with a unique collection of oddball toys is A-OK with me.  Collect the weirdness, win a prize&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, <strong>Dancing Hamsters<\/strong> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/hamstercollection\"><strong>hamstercollection<\/strong><\/a>!  You win this week&#8217;s prize!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kuf3sDBUANg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kuf3sDBUANg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve mentioned the Dancing Hamster toy that sings &#8220;LOUIE LOUIE.&#8221; The first time I mentioned it was a year and a half ago. It was four days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,22,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-new-versions","category-old-versions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}