{"id":43127,"date":"2017-08-06T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43127"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:38:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:38:50","slug":"924-arachnophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/924-arachnophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"(#9\/24): \u201cArachnophobia\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Couched in my Lazy-Boy,<\/p>\n<p>Beer in one hand and<\/p>\n<p>Remote in the other,<\/p>\n<p>I channel surf idly,<\/p>\n<p>And chance upon this ridiculous movie,<\/p>\n<p>Of giant lava-breathing, fire-spewing spiders,<\/p>\n<p>Spawned from the depths of hell,<\/p>\n<p>Ludicrously called \u201cLavalantula\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starring the cast of \u201cPolice Academy\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>Playing it with tongues very much in cheek,<\/p>\n<p>The cheap production values, poor \u2018special\u2019 effects,<\/p>\n<p>And laughable CGI tarantulas were a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s worse, it was so well received,<\/p>\n<p>Because it didn\u2019t take itself seriously,<\/p>\n<p>A sequel ensued, I discover,<\/p>\n<p>Imaginatively titled \u201c2 Lava 2 Lantula\u201d, LOL.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couched in my Lazy-Boy, Beer in one hand and Remote in the other, I channel surf idly, And chance upon this ridiculous movie, Of giant lava-breathing, fire-spewing spiders, Spawned from the depths of hell, Ludicrously called \u201cLavalantula\u201d. &nbsp; Starring the cast of \u201cPolice Academy\u201d, Playing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43131,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43127\/revisions\/43131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}