{"id":2402,"date":"2009-08-20T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2009-08-20T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T19:17:56","slug":"other_worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"Other Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/avatar\/hd\/\">trailer for <i>Avatar<\/i><\/a>, the next film from James Cameron, is now available. <i>Avatar <\/i>has garnered a lot of attention from the geek community because Cameron has demonstrated a talent for writing and directing intelligent, propulsive science fiction films (<i>Aliens<\/i>, <i>Terminator 2<\/i>) and because it prominently features  computer-generated scenery and characters that occupy almost every frame of the film. The trailer looks spectacular, although it only hints at a plot centering on a paraplegic marine who volunteers to have his consciousness transferred into the body of a blue alien dude. <\/p>\n<p>Hollywood really does have a soft spot for stories of gimps being given the chance to walk again. As long as the movie isn&#8217;t one big clich\u00e9, I won&#8217;t complain. But should I ever finish my current writing project, my next effort will be a futuristic tale of a gimp space pirate, his faithful robotic attendant, and his many, many love interests. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trailer for Avatar, the next film from James Cameron, is now available. Avatar has garnered a lot of attention from the geek community because Cameron has demonstrated a talent for writing and directing intelligent, propulsive science fiction films (Aliens, Terminator 2) and because it prominently features computer-generated scenery and characters that occupy almost every <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2402' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-CK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}