{"id":129471,"date":"2016-01-12T22:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T05:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/rip-the-goblin-king.html"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:35:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T05:35:50","slug":"rip-the-goblin-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/rip-the-goblin-king.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, the Goblin King"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was, I confess, not personally a fan of David Bowie's music and protean theatricality, but I'll always remember him for his role of Jareth, the Goblin King in Labyrinth.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAn appreciation of Labyrinth and David Bowie’s magical Goblin King<\/a><\/span>
\nThe dark, semi-musical children’s film has, somewhat improbably, become one of Bowie’s most memorable projects.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I was, I confess, not personally a fan of David Bowie's music and protean theatricality, but I'll always remember him for his role of Jareth, the Goblin King in Labyrinth. An appreciation of Labyrinth and David Bowie’s magical Goblin King The dark, semi-musical children’s film has, somewhat improbably, become one of Bowie’s most memorable projects. … Continue reading “RIP, the Goblin King”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10696,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/spider_man_3_trailer.html","url_meta":{"origin":129471,"position":0},"title":"Spider-Man 3 trailer","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Nov-06 10:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sandman! 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