{"id":5511,"date":"2011-08-28T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2011-08-28T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:22:53","slug":"just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2011\/08\/just-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Just for fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually get chills when watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/rhUJmKIPKGY\" target=\"_blank\">following video<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s just too cool seeing this all come together<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhUJmKIPKGY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known this video for a couple of years now, and there&#8217;s a decent chance you&#8217;re familiar with it<strong>;<\/strong> at least with the tour that culminated from it. <em>That<\/em>, however, was only the lead-in for <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oTWMXRWN0N8\" target=\"_blank\"><em>this<\/em><\/a>. Turn your volume down if you&#8217;re someplace public<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTWMXRWN0N8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, hang onto that link &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing better to cheer you up when you&#8217;re down than baby animals. Yes, I&#8217;m referring to the kids with that ;-)<\/p>\n<p>This was a promo to announce the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dinosaurlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Walking With Dinosaurs<\/em><\/a> tour in Australia (unfortunately, shameful autoplay video at that link &#8211; never, ever do this.) When the tour came into this area of the US, there was no way in hell we were going to afford it at that time, which is a shame, because the effort put into it is astounding. It&#8217;s impossible to say whether the behaviors and movements displayed are accurate depictions of species from millions of years ago, but from our perspective with the species alive now, they certainly <em>look<\/em> realistic. In an age when no movie company seems capable of producing entertainment without hosing around the CGI, clumsily and shamelessly, seeing what can be done with live action is refreshing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually get chills when watching the following video &#8211; it&#8217;s just too cool seeing this all come together: I&#8217;ve known this video for a couple of years now, and there&#8217;s a decent chance you&#8217;re familiar with it; at least with the tour that culminated from it. That, however, was only the lead-in for this. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,46],"tags":[847,846,845],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-random","category-too-cool","tag-nobody-chundered","tag-nobody-gets-eaten-either","tag-walking-with-dinosaurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}