{"id":362,"date":"2005-10-12T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T10:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2005-10-12T10:57:37","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T10:57:37","slug":"a_disastrous_merging_of_univer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/12\/a_disastrous_merging_of_univer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Disastrous Merging of Universes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, boy, is this geeky&#8230; so terribly, terribly geeky that even I am frightened by it (but it seems to making the rounds of the &#8216;net today, so I&#8217;m honor-bound to link to it):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/News\/2005\/10\/top_11_lotr_lucas.html\">Changes in George Lucas&#8217;s <i>Lord of the Rings: Special Edition<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For your convenience, I&#8217;ll reproduce the list below the fold so you don&#8217;t have to follow the link, but I caution you. Read on only if you are stout of heart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n11. Hobbits&#8217; resistance to The Ring is caused by the high number of midichlorians they possess.<br \/>\n10. One hyphenated word: Jar-Jaromir!<br \/>\n9. Gandalf to set off fifteen minute fireworks display every time the party stops to rest.<br \/>\n8. &#8220;Help me Tom Bombadil, you&#8217;re my only hope.&#8221;<br \/>\n7. All Orcs actually clones of Wormtongue.<br \/>\n6. Extra hobbits added digitally. Like, loads of hobbits. Especially in Mordor. Kids love hobbits, right?<br \/>\n5. Witch King hilariously eaten by Oliphant.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;It&#8217;s about this one guy, Gollum, and how he is redeemed through hard work.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Elves have these really cool houses in the trees.<br \/>\n2. At The Prancing Pony, Bill Ferny shoots Aragorn first.<br \/>\n1. All poetry of original restored, complete with musical backing and endless CG dancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, boy, is this geeky&#8230; so terribly, terribly geeky that even I am frightened by it (but it seems to making the rounds of the &#8216;net today, so I&#8217;m honor-bound to link to it): Changes in George Lucas&#8217;s Lord of the Rings: Special Edition. For your convenience, I&#8217;ll reproduce the list below the fold so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}