{"id":1014,"date":"2007-11-10T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1014"},"modified":"2007-11-10T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T23:58:56","slug":"beyond-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1014","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Old."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>54 doesn&#8217;t feel like a whole hell of a long time to have been walking this good earth.&nbsp; I have to keep reminding myself that to a lot of people whose paths I cross nowadays, 54 years is just a tad short of forever&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2007\/11\/this_weekend_at_the_movies_33\"><strong>This Weekend at the Movies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Author?oid=7759\">Annie Wagner<\/a> on November 9at 12:33 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Guillermo del Toro smoking?<\/strong>: <em>Pan&rsquo;s Labyrinth<\/em> director <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/7084788.stm\">will adapt<\/a> an ancient British TV show about secret agents who acquire psychic powers after crashing in the Communist Himalayas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"352\" height=\"266\" alt=\"champions.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/files\/2007\/11\/champions.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ancient?!&nbsp; I glanced at that photo and instantly remembered the show without even needing to follow the link.&nbsp; It was called <em>The Champions<\/em>.&nbsp; I would have been 15 when it started airing in the fall of 1968.&nbsp; I recalled it running for just one season and that the stories were fairly unexciting and unimaginative considering the premise.&nbsp; It was certainly no <em>Avengers<\/em>, but then nothing else was either.&nbsp; I wouldn&#8217;t go out of my way to own the DVD set, assuming anyone would make one.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ancient.&nbsp; Ancient.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not helping that I can remember when telephones all looked like that too.&nbsp; And&#8230;window blinds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, a remake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrobertson.com\/run_for_your_life.htm\"><em>Run For Your Life<\/em><\/a>  could be cool&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54 doesn&#8217;t feel like a whole hell of a long time to have been walking this good earth.&nbsp; I have to keep reminding myself that to a lot of people whose paths I cross nowadays, 54 years is just a tad short of forever&#8230; This Weekend at the Movies Posted by Annie Wagner on November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}