{"id":643672,"date":"2013-02-24T14:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=69941"},"modified":"2013-02-24T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T15:30:18","slug":"new-playlists-spoken-word-fireworks-and-thats-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643672","title":{"rendered":"New playlists: &ldquo;Spoken-word fireworks&rdquo; and &ldquo;That&rsquo;s absurd!&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70364\" alt=\"spoken_word_fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/spoken_word_fireworks.jpg?w=900\"   \/><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\" >TED playlists<\/a> are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, two new playlists are available: Spoken-word fireworks and That&#8217;s absurd!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/88\/that_s_absurd.html\" ><strong>That&#8217;s absurd!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n5 quirky talks remind us that life is funny, weird, sweet, absurd. Watch talks by Improv Everywhere&#8217;s Charlie Todd and Postsecret&#8217;s Frank Warren, and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/playlists\/87\/spoken_word_fireworks.html\" ><strong>Spoken-word fireworks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n7 brave and beautiful expressions from some of the world&#8217;s most talented spoken-word performers &#8212; like Anna Deavere Smith, Sarah Kay and Rives &#8212; who weave stories in words and gestures.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69941\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/69941\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=69941&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/5sPHX8DyLaA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, two new playlists are available: Spoken-word fireworks and That&#8217;s absurd! That&#8217;s absurd! 5 quirky talks remind us that life is funny, weird, sweet, absurd. Watch talks by Improv Everywhere&#8217;s Charlie Todd and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}