{"id":5687,"date":"2014-03-18T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2014-03-18T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:44:20","slug":"supermans-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/18\/supermans-eye-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman&#8217;s-Eye View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons why the character of Superman has endured for 75 years, in my humble opinion, is that he embodies a huge dose of wish fulfillment. All superheroes do, of course, but the Last Son of Krypton is a special case, because he was the first of these characters, and probably remains the most well-known outside the hardcore comic-book community, even with all the superhero movies of recent years. He&#8217;s also a special case, I believe, because his defining powers &#8212; flight, strength, speed, and invulnerability &#8212; are both the most basic and the most universally desired extraordinary abilities that human beings fantasize about having. Who hasn&#8217;t imagined being able to stop a bullet or lift a car? Or <em>fly<\/em>, the ability we all enjoy in our sleeping dreams and envy the birds? Don&#8217;t we all want to know what it would be like to fly like Superman?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s a very fun little viral video burning up the InterWebs today that will give you a taste of precisely that. The premise of this mini-epic is simple: Supes has gotten hold of a <a href=\"http:\/\/gopro.com\/\">GoPro<\/a>, one of those tiny, wearable,\u00a0 high-definition video cameras that have taken the extreme sports world by storm in recent years, and is recording his daily activities. I have a couple of little quibbles with the video (don&#8217;t I always?): I don&#8217;t care for the song that&#8217;s been laid over the action, and I prefer the Chris Reeve style of magical, weightless take-offs and landings over crater-generating ka-booms like we see in <em>Man of Steel&#8230; <\/em>but hey, at least <em>this<\/em> Kal-El is wearing his traditional, brightly colored outfit instead of that drab wetsuit-looking thingie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H0Ib9SwC7EI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and for the record, I love the idea of Superman doing something like this&#8230; he may be god-like, but he&#8217;s still, in his way, one of us&#8230; and that too is a big part of his appeal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons why the character of Superman has endured for 75 years, in my humble opinion, is that he embodies a huge dose of wish fulfillment. All superheroes do, of course, but the Last Son of Krypton is a special case, because he was the first of these characters, and probably remains the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5687","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\/5687","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=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}