{"id":1034,"date":"2005-05-16T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T09:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2005-05-16T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T09:43:51","slug":"the-power-of-the-dark-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1034","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Dark Crystal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So check this out &#150; there&#8217;s a <a title=\"\"Dark Crystal\" Sequel In The Works (May 14th-15th, 2005) - Dark Horizons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/news05\/050515d.php\">&#8220;Dark Crystal&#8221; sequel to <i>The Dark Crystal<\/i> in the works<\/a>, which is then meant to be followed up with an animated series.  I&#8217;m not entirely sure how to feel about this.  On the one hand, I&#8217;m utterly excited to see more stories about the gelflings and Aughra and the Skeksis, but on the other I&#8217;m also utterly apprehensive since none of the Muppet movies have felt quite right since Jim Henson passed away.<br \/>\n&#8220;Wait a moment,&#8221; I hear you Henson fans saying.  &#8220;Skeksis?  How can the Skeksis come back?&#8221;   Apparently the Dark Crystal gets split again in the sequel, which (spoiler alert!) I&#8217;m guessing means that they separate from their Ur-sol halves.  Can you imagine that morning-after conversation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So check this out &#150; there&#8217;s a &#8220;Dark Crystal&#8221; sequel to The Dark Crystal in the works, which is then meant to be followed up with an animated series. I&#8217;m not entirely sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, I&#8217;m utterly excited to see more stories about the gelflings and Aughra and [&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":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-gG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}