{"id":12336,"date":"2013-05-07T14:22:55","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=12336"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T19:05:28","slug":"rip-ray-harryhausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2013\/05\/07\/rip-ray-harryhausen\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Ray Harryhausen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A great pioneer in special effects before computer-generated stuff took over. Ray laid down the groundwork for other films that integrated miniatures with live action, namely\u00a0<em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>&#8216;s Hoth battle involving the walkers. His material even influenced the digital stuff we have today:\u00a0<em>Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ray&#8217;s own movies remain impressive despite the &#8220;flaws,&#8221; namely how the action blurring is off:\u00a0<em>Jason and the Argonauts,\u00a0<\/em>the <i>Sinbad<\/i> franchise and my personal favorite (the only one I actually saw in a theater)\u00a0<em>Clash of the Titans<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks Ray for all the cool stuff you brought to life to make certain movies impressive!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great pioneer in special effects before computer-generated stuff took over. Ray laid down the groundwork for other films that integrated miniatures with live action, namely\u00a0The Empire Strikes Back&#8216;s Hoth battle involving the walkers. His material even influenced the digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2013\/05\/07\/rip-ray-harryhausen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12339,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12336\/revisions\/12339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}