{"id":3670,"date":"2012-12-17T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T01:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2012-12-17T19:51:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T01:51:32","slug":"in-a-world-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"In A World Where&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movie trailers can be notoriously misleading, but next year could bring some interesting fare for us science fiction buffs. <a href=\"http:\/\/trailers.apple.com\/trailers\/universal\/oblivion\/\"><em>Oblivion<\/em><\/a> provides stunning glimpses of a future Earth ravaged by an alien invasion. And Morgan Freeman as a possibly-maybe bad guy! Meanwhile, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/trailers.apple.com\/trailers\/wb\/pacificrim\/\">Pacific Rim<\/a><\/em> finds Jax Teller from <em>Sons of Anarchy<\/em> trading in his Harley for a giant robot which he uses to fight similarly gigantic sea monsters from another dimension. The premise is something that a ten-year-old boy might have concocted, but director Guillermo del Toro has proven himself capable of bringing some gravitas to otherworldly affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vF-oJjsmJtw\"><em>After Earth<\/em><\/a>, M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s return to science fiction. Will Smith and his real-life son crash-land their spaceship on an Earth now populated by lots of CGI wildlife that doesn\u2019t have fond memories of humans. There\u2019s no scenes of characters trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0949731\/\">flee a gentle breeze<\/a>, so I\u2019m trying to remain cautiously optimistic about this one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie trailers can be notoriously misleading, but next year could bring some interesting fare for us science fiction buffs. Oblivion provides stunning glimpses of a future Earth ravaged by an alien invasion. And Morgan Freeman as a possibly-maybe bad guy! Meanwhile, Pacific Rim finds Jax Teller from Sons of Anarchy trading in his Harley for <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3670' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-23-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}