{"id":13112,"date":"2008-07-19T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/19\/wholl-be-watching-the-watchmen.html"},"modified":"2008-07-19T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T21:11:02","slug":"wholl_be_watching_the_wat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/19\/wholl_be_watching_the_wat.html","title":{"rendered":"Who’ll be Watching the Watchmen?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/div>\n

Oh my!<\/a> Me, for one, based on that trailer.<\/p>\n

Aside from a somewhat skimpier Silk Spectre outfit, and a bit more latex Ozymandias, the imagery<\/em>, at least, is just spectacularly spot-on. And the article itself makes a good case that we’ll be seeing something dystopiacally faithful to the Alan Moore \/ Dave Gibbons original<\/a>. <\/small><\/p>\n

(via BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh my! Me, for one, based on that trailer. Aside from a somewhat skimpier Silk Spectre outfit, and a bit more latex Ozymandias, the imagery, at least, is just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11649,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/26\/watching_the_watchmen.html","url_meta":{"origin":13112,"position":0},"title":"Watching the Watchmen","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Jul-07 10:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Has the film adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen finally been cast?\u00a0 Variety thinks so, with official announcements coming out this week at the San Diego Comic-Con. Billy Crudup as...","rel":"","context":"In "Comics & Comic Books"","block_context":{"text":"Comics & Comic Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/watchmen-cover.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/27\/bt03_top_twelve.html","url_meta":{"origin":13112,"position":1},"title":"BT03 – Top Twelve, Part 8","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 27-Jul-03 2:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Concluding my list of The Top Twelve Comics Everyone Should Read. (And, yes, there's a numbering problem I need to go back and fix.)...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogathon"","block_context":{"text":"Blogathon","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/blogathon"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129447,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/lone-and-level-sands.html","url_meta":{"origin":13112,"position":2},"title":"Lone and Level Sands","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Jan-16 11:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And on the pedestal these words appear:\u201cMy name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!\u201dNothing beside remains: round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,The lone and level sands stretch far away.-- Percy Bysshe Shelley(https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/ozymandias) Originally shared by +Alex Scrivener: This is the post\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1361,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/18\/ozymandias_pagi.html","url_meta":{"origin":13112,"position":3},"title":"“Ozymandias. Paging Mr. Ozymandias …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Jan-02 7:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sic transit gloria Mile High Stadium....","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51652,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/01\/the-strange-appeal-and-tristesse-of-ruins.html","url_meta":{"origin":13112,"position":4},"title":"The Strange Appeal and Tristesse of Ruins","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Jul-15 3:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Modern ruins, in fact. When I see a large structure that is in decay, it always fills me with both fascination and sadness. The fascination is to do with something permanent being transitory, and how it changes: decay, overgrowth, rust, the elements, animals, softening and sagging and snapping and crumbling.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129104,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/11\/the-x-men-apocalypse-official-trailer-drops.html","url_meta":{"origin":13112,"position":5},"title":"The "X-Men: Apocalypse" official trailer drops","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Dec-15 1:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Huh.Now, it doesn't help that I've never been a big Apocalypse fan -- he was of those late 80s X-characters that were part of the metastasizing of the X-comics in that era (created by Louise Simonson, but I always associate him with Chris Claremont).That said, this trailer just doesn't do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}