{"id":345,"date":"2007-05-19T10:47:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T10:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-01-03T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T01:42:43","slug":"rambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2007\/05\/19\/rambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/37996586683@N01\/503836414\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/215\/503836414_188eff094b.jpg\" alt=\"Orange and blue\" height=\"500\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not sure why I thought of this photo this morning. It was taken about 18 months ago at Middleton in South Australia, and I love the washed out summer look with the orange and blue.<\/p>\n<p>I had the pleasure of having lunch with fellow Canberra blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/ampersandduck.blogspot.com\/\">Ampersand Duck<\/a> a couple of days ago. I really enjoyed it &#8212; thanks, AD!<\/p>\n<p>That day I also picked up a copy of <em>Northern Lights<\/em>, the first in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philip-pullman.com\/index.asp\">Philip Pullman<\/a>&#8216;s trilogy <em>His Dark Materials<\/em>. I&#8217;ve been intending to read it since <a href=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/04\/18\/puppetry-daemons-in-his-dark-materials\/\">blogging about the theatrical production<\/a> which featured puppetry daemons designed by Michael Curry, and now by the news that it&#8217;s being made into a film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldencompassmovie.com\/\">The Golden Compass<\/a>, which has a release date at the end of this year. I&#8217;ve already dived in, and I&#8217;m finding the story engrossing.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how the daemons will be done in the film?<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"400\" width=\"450\"><\/object><param value=\"http:\/\/goldencompassmovie.com\/goldenCompass_blog.swf?id=99584\" name=\"movie\"><\/param>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure why I thought of this photo this morning. It was taken about 18 months ago at Middleton in South Australia, and I love the washed out summer look with the orange and blue. I had the pleasure of having lunch with fellow Canberra blogger Ampersand Duck a couple of days ago. I really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,270],"tags":[1359,714,715,228,229,306,1355,1365],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photographs","tag-books","tag-daemons","tag-golden-compass","tag-his-dark-materials","tag-philip-pullman","tag-photograph","tag-puppetry","tag-puppets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saZhI-rambling","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}