{"id":390,"date":"2006-11-24T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-07-22T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T09:29:14","slug":"penguin-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/penguin-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the success of <em>Happy Feet<\/em> (which edged out the most Flemingesque Bond film since <em>On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service<\/em> to be the #1 movie last weekend) following the 2005 <em>March of the Penguins<\/em> phenomenon moves me to protest this current status as the feel-good flightless fowl of the 21st century.  Enough with the cutesification; <em>where are the weird fiction penguins?<\/em> Where are the mutant penguins, the albino penguins, the birds who can intimidate leopard seals and feral Shoggoths or freeze Miskatonic expeditions in their tracks with a single well-timed &#8220;<em>Tekeli-li!<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Give us penguins Who Know Too Much (consult Chaosium&#8217;s 1996 <em>The Antarktos Cycle<\/em> for details), red-eyed and raucous-voiced witnesses to the cosmic tragedies and iniquities that have unfolded on the austral icecap for the last few million years. <em>Children of all ages need nightmares<\/em> and today&#8217;s animators just aren&#8217;t getting the job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the success of Happy Feet (which edged out the most Flemingesque Bond film since On Her Majesty&#8217;s Secret Service to be the #1 movie last weekend) following the 2005 March of the Penguins phenomenon moves me to protest this current status as the feel-good flightless fowl of the 21st century. Enough with the cutesification; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}