{"id":2301,"date":"2012-04-11T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2012-04-11T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T14:10:46","slug":"proof_of_the_obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/11\/proof_of_the_obvious\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof of the Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/john-carter-and-dejah-thoris-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2501 aligncenter\" alt=\"john-carter-and-dejah-thoris\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/john-carter-and-dejah-thoris-300x192.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, The Girlfriend went to her hair stylist last night for the usual maintenance work, and she later told me that while she was in the chair, the smalltalk turned, as I imagine it often does, to recent movies. Anne mentioned to her stylist that she and I quite liked <em>John Carter<\/em>, only to have the stylist remark that she wasn&#8217;t interested in that one because she couldn&#8217;t really tell what it was about from the TV ads. So Anne &#8212; who I think is on the verge of becoming a genuine Edgar Rice Burroughs fan, thanks to our nightly readings from the Barsoom series (we&#8217;re about two-thirds of the way through book two, <em>The Gods of Mars<\/em>, right now) &#8212; proceeded to explain what the movie&#8217;s marketing did not: that it was a swashbuckling adventure based on a seminal century-old sci-fi\/fantasy pulp novel by the same author who created Tarzan&#8230; at which point, her stylist said something to the effect of, &#8220;Really? It&#8217;s based on a book? By the guy behind Tarzan? I totally would&#8217;ve seen it if I had known that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You see how easy it would&#8217;ve been, Disney marketing people? Bunch of schmucks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, The Girlfriend went to her hair stylist last night for the usual maintenance work, and she later told me that while she was in the chair, the smalltalk turned, as I imagine it often does, to recent movies. Anne mentioned to her stylist that she and I quite liked John Carter, only to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","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\/2301","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=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}