{"id":6262,"date":"2014-09-10T17:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2014-09-10T17:05:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T23:05:04","slug":"arent-you-a-little-short-for-a-superhero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/10\/arent-you-a-little-short-for-a-superhero\/","title":{"rendered":"Aren&#8217;t You a Little Short for a Superhero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s lighten the mood for a moment, shall we? Here&#8217;s something our blogging colleague Jaquandor <a href=\"http:\/\/byzantiumshores.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/marvel-heroes-by-height.html\">posted<\/a> the other day that may prove amusing and\/or informative:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/marvel-superheroes-height-chart-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6263\" alt=\"marvel-superheroes-height-chart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/marvel-superheroes-height-chart-1024x476.jpg\" width=\"725\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am somewhat chagrined to learn I am the same height as Black Widow, which is way down on the low end of the heroic spectrum. I&#8217;m a good head shorter than all the really cool guys, certainly. I&#8217;d find myself looking eye-to-collarbone with Peter Quill and Steve Rogers, and eye-to-nipple with everybody&#8217;s favorite hunk of manly beefcake, Thor. Which I guess would consign me to sidekick status, or at least stick me with the second-tier heroes, the ones who never get their own solo books or movies. (Not counting Wolverine, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking up at my friends my whole damn life, so I guess this is nothing new. And being at eye level with the Widow &#8212; played so deliciously in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by one of the sexiest actresses currently working, the lovely Scarlett Johansson &#8212; might have certain advantages. It would make slow-dancing with her easier than with Mystique or Storm, for example. And in any event, I&#8217;m <em>still<\/em> taller than that pipsqueak Logan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s lighten the mood for a moment, shall we? Here&#8217;s something our blogging colleague Jaquandor posted the other day that may prove amusing and\/or informative: I am somewhat chagrined to learn I am the same height as Black Widow, which is way down on the low end of the heroic spectrum. I&#8217;m a good head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-pop-culture-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","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=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}