{"id":10459,"date":"2011-07-28T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T21:47:44","slug":"marking-the-4th-anniversary-of-the-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/marking-the-4th-anniversary-of-the-guild\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking the 4th anniversary of <em>The Guild<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barnyardfx.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/happy-4th-guildversary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Aronowitz<\/a> has posted a retrospective of the first four years of <em>The Guild<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was fortunate enough to come aboard right at what could be argued as the tipping point for the show, with the &#8220;bonus feature&#8221; music video &#8220;Do You Want To Date My Avatar?&#8221; The video broke records, and went No.1 on several charts, including iTunes. People who had never played a video game or watched a web series were suddenly aware of <em>The Guild<\/em>, and the cross-over audience catapulted the show to numbers that previously were reserved for network television.<\/p>\n<p>I had a great time working on the music video, but I had no idea at the time of the opportunities and adventures my association with <em>The Guild<\/em> would lead to. After reading Felicia&#8217;s article, I thought it might be fun to chronicle my involvement with the show on this special day. I went to my iPhoto, opened <em>The Guild<\/em> folder, and realized that I have over 4,000 photos! So I cancelled my lunch meeting, and put this quick run down memory lane together for you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Felicia-Day-as-Codex.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Felicia Day as Codex\" width=\"538\" height=\"694\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Felicia-Day-as-Codex.jpg 538w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Felicia-Day-as-Codex-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Felicia-Day-as-Codex-465x600.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: The first episode of Season five just got posted:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' id='bn3g1lh8' width='432' height='418' codebase='http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab' ><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/img.widgets.video.s-msn.com\/fl\/customplayer\/current\/customplayer.swf' \/><param name='flashvars' value='linkback=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fvideos%2Fbrowse&#038;linkoverride=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2Fvideos%2Fbrowse%3Fmkt%3Den-us%26from%3D%7Bfrom%7D%26vid%3D&#038;mkt=en-us&#038;player.v=b6705281-0625-41ed-b45d-c38f4ed3c2e2&#038;configCsid=MSNVideo&#038;brand=v5%5E544x306&#038;configName=syndicationplayer' \/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff' \/><param name='base' value='.' \/><param name='quality' value='high' \/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' \/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always' \/><param name='wmode' value='transparent' \/><noembed><a href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/watch\/video\/season-5-episode-1-road-trip\/y02jncib?cpkey=b6705281-0625-41ed-b45d-c38f4ed3c2e2%7C%7C%7C%7C' target='_new' title='Season 5 - Episode 1 - Road Trip!' >Video: Season 5 &#8211; Episode 1 &#8211; Road Trip!<\/a><\/noembed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Aronowitz has posted a retrospective of the first four years of The Guild: I was fortunate enough to come aboard right at what could be argued as the tipping point for the show, with the &#8220;bonus feature&#8221; music video &#8220;Do You Want To Date My Avatar?&#8221; The video broke records, and went No.1 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,57,28],"tags":[264],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-humour","category-media","tag-theguild"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10479,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10459\/revisions\/10479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}