{"id":10966,"date":"2010-05-05T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T21:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10966"},"modified":"2010-05-05T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T21:53:02","slug":"dino-detritus-bronte-sisters-as-superheros-bookem-brontes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/dino-detritus-bronte-sisters-as-superheros-bookem-brontes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dino Detritus: Bront\u00c3\u00a9 Sisters as Superheros. Book&#8217;em, Bront\u00c3\u00a9s!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you mix Victorian era gothic romance writers with a fake educational short commercial?<\/p>\n<p>Dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10966\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/go-go-bronte-sisters.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"go-go-bronte-sisters\" width=\"487\" height=\"295\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/go-go-bronte-sisters.png 487w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/go-go-bronte-sisters-300x181.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Look below to see this commercial success.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-NKXNThJ610&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-NKXNThJ610&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>By Phil Lord and Chris Miller<br \/>\nThis was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-NKXNThJ610\" class=\"external external_icon\"> a fake commercial we made in 1998 for a series of educational shorts <\/a>about action figures based on historical figures. Its educational value was somewhat suspect. It was never aired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a damn shame it never aired.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/freakangels.com\/whitechapel\/comments.php?DiscussionID=8172&#038;page=3#Item_18\" class=\"external external_icon\">@Icelandbob &#8211; Whitechapel Zoo May 2010<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-NKXNThJ610\" class=\"external external_icon\">Informational You Tube<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FineMoustaches\" class=\"external external_icon\">Fine Moustaches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you mix Victorian era gothic romance writers with a fake educational short commercial? Dinosaurs. Look below to see this commercial success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,52,32,7],"tags":[1009,2254,103,2282,1560,863,4945,2285,2283,2281,2286,2284,2228,4927,913],"class_list":["post-10966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-just-freaking-neat","category-marketing","category-video","tag-1990s","tag-action-figures","tag-awesome","tag-bronte-sisters","tag-commercial","tag-dino-detritus","tag-dinosaurs","tag-educational-short","tag-english-in-action","tag-fake","tag-power-women","tag-super-extreme-mega-history-heroes","tag-superheros","tag-video","tag-whitechapel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10970,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10966\/revisions\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}