{"id":5579,"date":"2009-01-07T11:46:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5579"},"modified":"2009-01-07T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T14:23:21","slug":"if_you_could_tu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/if_you_could_tu\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Could Turn Back Time &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A break from politics and world news (and my crazy workday) to share this short, sweet video that I just caught wind of via my daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veryshortlist.com\">VSL<\/a> fix.<\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;Rewind City&#8221; and is a French TV ad currently airing for Orange&#8217;s DVR service in France. Watch as the unexpressed wish of a tearful backpacker comes true when the traffic and people in a Goan village conspire to reverse direction.<\/p>\n\n<p>Filmed in village of Assonora, 15km east of the town of Mapusa (a hub for bus travel) in North Goa, it&#8217;s directed by British director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattlingstick.com\/ringan.html\">Ringan Ledwidge<\/a>. The main characters came from Paris, the 250 extras came from Mumbai, and the other backpacker types came from Anjuna, home to the famous Goa hippie flea market.<\/p>\n\n<p>The ad asks the question, &#8220;What if you could rewind a memorable moment in your life?&#8221; Not a bad question to ask of oneself every now and then.<\/p>\n\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kIY3-ECJQlg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kIY3-ECJQlg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A break from politics and world news (and my workday) to share this sweet video that I just caught wind of via my daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veryshortlist.com\">VSL<\/a> fix. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Rewind City&#8221; and is a French TV ad currently airing for Orange&#8217;s DVR service in France. Watch as the unexpressed wish of a tearful backpacker comes true when the traffic and people in a Goan village conspire to reverse direction.<\/p> <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/if_you_could_tu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,31,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}