{"id":13396,"date":"2012-01-09T07:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2012-01-04T13:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:22:58","slug":"the-thingu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=13396","title":{"rendered":"The Thingu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t put it any better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/\">Topless Robot<\/a> does:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hey, do you want to see a two-minute remake of John Carpenter&#8217;s <i>The Thing<\/i> as performed by the claymated, Antarctic cast of the hit children&#8217;s animation <i>Pingu<\/i>? Let me answer for you: YES, YES YOU DO. MORE THAN ANYTHING YOU&#8217;VE EVER WANTED IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"243\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ToCq_c3wOM8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ToCq_c3wOM8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"243\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t honestly say I disagree.<\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gAFhaVAmlBY&#038;feature=relmfu\">&#8220;making of&#8221;<\/a> video of the process, just in case you want to know even more about the art of horror penguin claymation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t put it any better than Topless Robot does: Hey, do you want to see a two-minute remake of John Carpenter&#8217;s The Thing as performed by the claymated, Antarctic cast of the hit children&#8217;s animation Pingu? Let me answer for you: YES, YES YOU DO. MORE THAN ANYTHING YOU&#8217;VE EVER WANTED IN YOUR ENTIRE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13402,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions\/13402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}