{"id":1264,"date":"2012-03-10T23:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T03:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2012\/03\/10\/march-ex-vi-fueled-my-imagination-on-day-ten\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T00:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T04:37:20","slug":"march-ex-vi-fueled-my-imagination-on-day-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1264","title":{"rendered":"March-Ex VI: fueled my imagination on day ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201c<em>A Princess of Mars<\/em> may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. The novel became a seminal text in the early science fiction canon, inspiring a slew of imitators.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Junot Diaz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As hard as I\u2019ve pushed the past week and as much as I\u2019ve accomplished, I still feel as though the March regimen has gone out of focus. Deadline drives have their own kind of relentless logic not in keeping with the drill. So, instead of taking the scruff of one\u2019s own neck and redirecting it to the month\u2019s structure, I went soft on myself and reset the sights for Monday. I hit a much-anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0401729\/\"><em>John Carter<\/em><\/a> matinee. Most critics are hating this movie, and it may only make a profit offshore, but I was not at all disappointed. Taylor\u2019s ability to command the screen and carry the story, plus a realized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/11\/arts\/artsspecial\/11frazetta.html\">Frazetta<\/a> vision, more than held my interest. Later in the afternoon, I took a long walk with my mate, and then we made pizza together to celebrate the thirty-fourth anniversary of our first date. John Carter said, \u201cGood God&#8230;I\u2019m on Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/3_10_2012.jpg' alt='3_10_2012.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 125%; margin-top: -5px; margin-bottom: 19px; color: gray;\">\n<em>Disney Sauce<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Princess of Mars may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. The novel became a seminal text in the early science fiction canon, inspiring a slew of imitators.\u201d \u2014Junot Diaz As hard as I\u2019ve pushed the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}