{"id":1893,"date":"2010-02-23T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2010-02-23T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:35:07","slug":"im_going_to_boragora_this_summ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/23\/im_going_to_boragora_this_summ\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Going to Bora-Gora This Summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just learned that <i>Tales of the Gold Monkey<\/i>, one of the &#8220;holy grails&#8221; of my misspent youth, will get its official DVD release on June 8. You can read the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/news\/Tales-Gold-Monkey-Press-Release\/13378\">here<\/a>, if you&#8217;ve a mind to.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like it&#8217;s going to be a nicely done set, with a 36-minute retrospective documentary (rare for these old television shows), a number of photo galleries and episode commentaries, and a collectible booklet. That&#8217;s impressive treatment for a series that lasted only one season way back in 1982! And I even like the package art, which is usually a <i>big<\/i> weak spot for TV-show DVDs. Although I do have to admit that the <i>Gold Monkey<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.net\/graphics\/news3\/TalesOfTheGoldMonkey_UK.jpg\">artwork<\/a> looks a <i>lot<\/i> like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.net\/graphics\/news3\/YoungIndyJones_V2_final.jpg\">what was done<\/a> for the <i>Young Indiana Jones<\/i> series; I guess <i>Gold Monkey<\/i> never will manage to shake off that particular association, will it?<\/p>\n<p>In any event, this makes me irrationally happy&#8230; the last week or so has been pretty crappy, for reasons that will be revealed shortly, and this little jolt of good news is welcome distraction indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you have no idea what the hell I&#8217;m even talking about, I&#8217;ve previously written about <i>Tales of the Gold Monkey<\/i> <a title=\"Finally! Gold Monkey on DVD!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2009\/12\/finally_gold_monkey_on_dvd\/\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"Tales of Gold Monkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/04\/tales_of_gold_monkey\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just learned that Tales of the Gold Monkey, one of the &#8220;holy grails&#8221; of my misspent youth, will get its official DVD release on June 8. You can read the details here, if you&#8217;ve a mind to. It looks like it&#8217;s going to be a nicely done set, with a 36-minute retrospective documentary (rare [&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-1893","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\/1893","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=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}