{"id":1394,"date":"2008-05-04T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T08:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2008-05-04T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T08:45:23","slug":"this_makes_me_happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/04\/this_makes_me_happy\/","title":{"rendered":"This Makes Me Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that I&#8217;m not always the world&#8217;s cheeriest person. What can I say? I think too much and life has a tendency of getting me down. But every once in a while something comes along that wipes away all the gunge for a brief time and leaves me, to borrow a phrase some of you out there will easily identify, giddy as a schoolboy:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JC92sDWxm6I&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"355\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JC92sDWxm6I&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you you look back through the archives of Simple Tricks, you&#8217;ll see quite an evolution regarding this movie. At first, I wanted nothing to do with a fourth Indiana Jones flick. I didn&#8217;t see any need for one and I had no confidence that G. Lucas could pull it off. My position gradually weakened as filming began and I started seeing stills from the new movie. And now&#8230; maybe it&#8217;s just simple Pavlovian conditioning keyed to a familiar theme song, but this trailer causes me to break out in a big ol&#8217; grin every time I watch it&#8230; and I&#8217;ve watched it about a dozen times now since a crappy phone-cam bootleg of it surfaced on Friday night. Screw <i>Iron Man<\/i>, I&#8217;m ready for some Jones! Only 17 days to go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that I&#8217;m not always the world&#8217;s cheeriest person. What can I say? I think too much and life has a tendency of getting me down. But every once in a while something comes along that wipes away all the gunge for a brief time and leaves me, to borrow a phrase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}