{"id":9271,"date":"2011-04-23T20:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9271"},"modified":"2011-04-23T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T01:07:48","slug":"im-the-kind-of-guy-who-invites-flash-gordon-allusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/im-the-kind-of-guy-who-invites-flash-gordon-allusions\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m The Kind Of Guy Who Invites Flash Gordon Allusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many Flash Gordon allusions do you get or make in a single day?<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;ve had two.<\/p>\n<p>First, while discussing teaching toddlers to laugh diabolically, a friend on Facebook said that Ming the Merciless had the most diabolical laugh.  I had to agree.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I am prone to singing to my second son, who has a monosyllabic name, &#8220;<code>&lt;monosyllabic name&gt;<\/code>, ah-ahhhhh!&#8221;  Tonight, my wife asked me what that was from.<\/p>\n<p>From the Queen theme song to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080745\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>thirty-one-year-old<\/em> film<\/a>, old man:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfmrHTdXgK4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because my father and I caught one of the old serials starring Buster Crabbe on a Milwaukee television station in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because I own a DVD of episodes from the 1950s television series starring Steve Holland.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because I watched that 1980 film over and over while my mother, brother, and I lived with friends who had HBO ca 1983 and <em>Flash Gordon<\/em> played a bunch amid the <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;m just the sort of fellow who is open to the universe and its possible Flash Gordon allusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many Flash Gordon allusions do you get or make in a single day? Today, I&#8217;ve had two. First, while discussing teaching toddlers to laugh diabolically, a friend on Facebook said that Ming the Merciless had the most diabolical laugh. I had to agree. Secondly, I am prone to singing to my second son, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9271"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9275,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9271\/revisions\/9275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}