{"id":355,"date":"2008-08-17T20:39:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2008-08-17T20:39:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T04:39:15","slug":"on-our-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; on our feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some bozos seem to have decided to make another movie called <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Several people are up in arms about this, including <a href=\"http:\/\/wilwheaton.typepad.com\/wwdnbackup\/2008\/08\/when-you-dresse.html\">Wil Wheaton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/7559471.stm\">Richard O&#8217;Brien<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I share their recognition that this is wrong and blasphemous: I think it&#8217;s wrong to <em>view<\/em> the RHPS anywhere but a theater at midnight; there isn&#8217;t a scale that captures the odiousness of remaking the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;m not expecting this attempt to amount to anything.\u00c2\u00a0 The RHPS survived <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shock_Treatment\"><em>Shock Treatment<\/em><\/a>, which was made by people who understood the RHPS.\u00c2\u00a0 These nimrods don&#8217;t scare me.<\/p>\n<p>There are those actively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoptheremake.com\/\">resisting the attempt<\/a>, and you may want to help, but honestly, I trust the universe on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some bozos seem to have decided to make another movie called The Rocky Horror Picture Show.\u00c2\u00a0 Several people are up in arms about this, including Wil Wheaton and Richard O&#8217;Brien.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I share their recognition that this is wrong and blasphemous: I think it&#8217;s wrong to view the RHPS anywhere but a theater at midnight; there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-stuff-i-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}