{"id":2181,"date":"2011-06-24T17:25:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2011-06-24T17:25:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T17:25:59","slug":"friday_evening_videos_space_girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/24\/friday_evening_videos_space_girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos: &#8220;Space Girl&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the usual sort of thing I post as a Friday Evening Video, being neither a true rock-and-roll song nor a relic from the 1980s, but I ran across it earlier today and found it utterly charming, for reasons that will quickly become obvious:<\/p>\n<p> <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-y8BjwzJSo\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"314\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, pretty girls and rayguns&#8230; like sweet, sweet catnip! <\/p>\n<p>My Loyal Readers are probably thinking that your host, being such a big-time nerd and all, can name the source of all these clips. Well, not quite. I recognize most of them but believe it or not, there are several that completely mystify even me. I&#8217;m guessing they were British productions that never made it to the states, or which I&#8217;ve simply never managed to catch.&nbsp; I could&#8217;ve done without the clip from <i>Starship Troopers<\/i> at roughly 2:30 &#8212; I <i>loathe <\/i>that piece of shit movie &#8212; but the poignancy of the very final scene more than makes up for it. Oh, my sweet Sarah Jane&#8230; the first celebrity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/tv-and-radio\/2011\/apr\/19\/elisabeth-sladen-doctor-who-star-dies\">death <\/a>in a long time that genuinely <i>hurt<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the usual sort of thing I post as a Friday Evening Video, being neither a true rock-and-roll song nor a relic from the 1980s, but I ran across it earlier today and found it utterly charming, for reasons that will quickly become obvious: Ah, pretty girls and rayguns&#8230; like sweet, sweet catnip! My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-evening-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","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=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}