{"id":1829,"date":"2009-10-29T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2009-10-29T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T10:41:43","slug":"there_are_no_cows_in_space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/29\/there_are_no_cows_in_space\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Cows in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, that <i>Castle\/Firefly<\/i> meta-joke I was <a title=\"The Return of Captain Tightpants\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2009\/10\/the_return_of_captain_tightpants\/\">looking forward to<\/a>? Every bit as brilliant and funny as I hoped, from the rapid-cut &#8220;gearing up&#8221; and familiar Malcolm Reynolds action-hero pose to Castle&#8217;s daughter puncturing his balloon with her teenagery command of the obvious:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\" 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=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Q3pdj9p6yI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"340\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Q3pdj9p6yI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I loved this whole sequence. I do find myself wondering, however, if any <i>Firefly<\/i> fans took the &#8220;get over it&#8221; line as a slight; browncoats seem to take a lot of crap in certain corners of the InterWebs for making such a fuss over a series that lasted only 13 episodes. Personally, I doubt it was intended that way, but fans can be notoriously touchy, as William Shatner learned with his own &#8220;get over it&#8221; joke. Hopefully, we all learned something from that ugly incident&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, that Castle\/Firefly meta-joke I was looking forward to? Every bit as brilliant and funny as I hoped, from the rapid-cut &#8220;gearing up&#8221; and familiar Malcolm Reynolds action-hero pose to Castle&#8217;s daughter puncturing his balloon with her teenagery command of the obvious: I loved this whole sequence. I do find myself wondering, however, if any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","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=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}