{"id":350,"date":"2005-09-28T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2005-09-28T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T14:22:09","slug":"wheres_kirk_douglas_when_you_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/28\/wheres_kirk_douglas_when_you_n\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Kirk Douglas When You Need Him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the coolest things I ever saw on TV when I was a kid &#8212; &#8220;coolest&#8221; in the sense of &#8220;scared the hell out of me but in a good way&#8221; &#8212; was the famous scene of the giant squid attacking the <i>Nautilus<\/i> in Disney&#8217;s 1954 masterpiece <i>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea<\/i>. Now here&#8217;s something even cooler: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2005\/09\/0927_050927_giant_squid.html\">Japanese scientists have taken the first-ever photos of a real-live giant squid<\/a> in the wild. Previously, the only evidence we had that these things even existed was an occasional corpse washing ashore, so seeing a living one is truly remarkable.<br \/>\nFrom the linked article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The animal \u0097 which measures roughly 25 feet (8 meters) long \u0097 was photographed 2,950 feet (900 meters) beneath the North Pacific Ocean. [The] scientists attracted the squid toward cameras attached to a baited fishing line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most striking of these images are <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dy8vp\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/8q8xc\">here<\/a>. Simply fascinating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the coolest things I ever saw on TV when I was a kid &#8212; &#8220;coolest&#8221; in the sense of &#8220;scared the hell out of me but in a good way&#8221; &#8212; was the famous scene of the giant squid attacking the Nautilus in Disney&#8217;s 1954 masterpiece 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Now here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}