{"id":250,"date":"2008-03-19T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T18:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-03-19T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T18:57:30","slug":"weird-coinkydink-2001-this-weekend-at-the-franklin-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/19\/weird-coinkydink-2001-this-weekend-at-the-franklin-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Coinkydink: 2001 this weekend at the Franklin Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/2358011.stm\">Arthur C. Clarke <\/a>died yesterday, as you probably knew, but did you know that the Franklin Institute was showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.fi.edu\/visitor-guide\/events\/special-events.php#scifi\">2001 this Saturday<\/a>. Odd but true, it&#8217;s part of a SciFi film series in support of their new Star Wars exhibit. Pretty lame as far as film series go: 2001 followed, in successive weeks, by Terminator  and Terminator 2. <\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t have taken too much imagination to come up with other movies that, I don&#8217;t know, were more influential in creating Star Wars. I respect the role of 2001 as the Citizen Kane of science fiction movies, but I was never a huge fan. Too much Kubrick quirkiness for my taste. Still, everything before the floating space fetus was pretty interesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur C. Clarke died yesterday, as you probably knew, but did you know that the Franklin Institute was showing 2001 this Saturday. Odd but true, it&#8217;s part of a SciFi film series in support of their new Star Wars exhibit. Pretty lame as far as film series go: 2001 followed, in successive weeks, by Terminator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-42","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}