{"id":966,"date":"2011-04-13T02:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T09:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/athena-and-the-pre-cgi-effects-films-of-death\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T02:26:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T09:26:39","slug":"athena-and-the-pre-cgi-effects-films-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/athena-and-the-pre-cgi-effects-films-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena and the Pre-CGI Effects Films of Death!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div>\n<div><img height=\"16\" alt=\"star\" width=\"16\" \/>Whatever <br \/>April 13, 2011 1:30 AM <br \/>by John Scalzi<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2011\/04\/13\/athena-and-the-pre-cgi-effects-films-of-death\/\">Athena and the Pre-CGI Effects Films of Death!<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4098\/4869687625_fa28ebd665.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" height=\"333\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My <a href=\"http:\/\/FilmCritic.com\">FilmCritic.com<\/a> column is back on its regular schedule, <\/strong>and this week my daughter (seen above, scowling dramatically) passes judgement on all effects-laden films prior to <em>Jurassic Park<\/em> and finds them <em>completely unacceptable<\/em>. Why does she do this \u2014 and is she correct to do so? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmcritic.com\/features\/2011\/04\/children-and-science-fiction\/\">The answers await you, my friends<\/a>. As always, if you feel the need to comment, please feel free to do so over at the column.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gofacebook\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/facebook\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gotwitter\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/twitter\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/scalzi.wordpress.com\/14908\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?resize=1%2C1\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"categories\">Uncategorized<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>\n<p \/>Sent from my iPhone 4 by Michael<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/mclasen.posterous.com\/athena-and-the-pre-cgi-effects-films-of-death\">mclasen&#8217;s posterous<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever April 13, 2011 1:30 AM by John Scalzi Athena and the Pre-CGI Effects Films of Death! My FilmCritic.com column is back on its regular schedule, and this week my daughter (seen above, scowling dramatically) passes judgement on all effects-laden films prior to Jurassic Park and finds them completely unacceptable. Why does she do this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-fA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}