{"id":11100,"date":"2007-04-10T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/10\/superthunderstingcar.html"},"modified":"2007-04-10T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T19:58:14","slug":"superthunderstingcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/superthunderstingcar.html","title":{"rendered":"SuperThunderStingCar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all you fans of (a) Gerry Anderson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supermarionation\" target=\"_blank\">Supermarionation<\/a> shows like, well, <em>Supercar, Thunderbirds,<\/em> or <em>Stingray<\/em>, and\/or (b) British comic genius&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Cook\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Cook<\/a>, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ua_wCMywEM0\" target=\"_blank\">a marvelous send-up<\/a> by the latter of the former.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Fred)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all you fans of (a) Gerry Anderson&#8217;s Supermarionation shows like, well, Supercar, Thunderbirds, or Stingray, and\/or (b) British comic genius&nbsp;Peter Cook, here&#8217;s a marvelous send-up by the latter of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31913,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/rip-gerry-anderson.html","url_meta":{"origin":11100,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Gerry Anderson","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Dec-12 12:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Anderson's work thrilled me as a kid -- from Fireball XL-5 and Stingray through the definitive puppet show, Thunderbirds (ARE GO!) 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