{"id":2235,"date":"2011-10-08T02:03:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T02:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2011-10-08T02:03:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T02:03:03","slug":"better_when_we_used_gelflings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/08\/better_when_we_used_gelflings\/","title":{"rendered":"Better When We Used Gelflings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you all remember <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Dark Crystal<\/span>, Jim Henson&#8217;s experimental fantasy film from the early &#8217;80s? It&#8217;s really a masterpiece of pre-digital effects work and virtuoso puppetry that immerses the audience in an alien world populated entirely by non-human creatures. Anyhow, if you recall, there&#8217;s a scene in which the Skeses, the evil bird-like bad guys, use the power of the titular crystal to drain the life essence from the &#8220;Podlings,&#8221; the innocent little villagers who live nearby, rendering them into prematurely aged, brain-dead slaves. Here, refresh your memories&#8230; go ahead, I&#8217;ll wait&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8w7zFfMr_Dc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, my job has reminded me of a lot of this scene lately. Guess which character I am?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you all remember The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson&#8217;s experimental fantasy film from the early &#8217;80s? It&#8217;s really a masterpiece of pre-digital effects work and virtuoso puppetry that immerses the audience in an alien world populated entirely by non-human creatures. Anyhow, if you recall, there&#8217;s a scene in which the Skeses, the evil bird-like bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","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=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}