{"id":7234,"date":"2013-01-10T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2013-01-11T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T00:01:01","slug":"culturally-up-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/culturally-up-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Culturally Up-To-Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went and saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0903624\/\">the Hobbit<\/a> (part 1!) this evening with some friends, so we are now unusually culturally up-to-date. \u00a0We decided to do the full <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hobbit_(film_series)#Technology\">fancy 3D with 48 frames per second<\/a>, and it did look remarkably good. \u00a0Almost too good. \u00a0Borderline theatrical in places, but not really too jarring.<\/p>\n<p>The movie itself was plenty entertaining, although it did sport the usual &#8216;straight-to-computer-game&#8217; sequences which never fail to annoy me. \u00a0But many parts looked utterly gorgeous, and I&#8217;d like to move to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rivendell\">Rivendell<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Imladris&amp;hl=en&amp;tbo=u&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=slPvUIvlOerP0AXIwYDoBQ&amp;ved=0CGAQsAQ&amp;biw=1454&amp;bih=726\">Imlradis<\/a>) please. \u00a0Or perhaps the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Imladris&amp;hl=en&amp;tbo=u&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=slPvUIvlOerP0AXIwYDoBQ&amp;ved=0CGAQsAQ&amp;biw=1454&amp;bih=726#hl=en&amp;tbo=d&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;q=shire+tolkien&amp;oq=shire+tolkien&amp;gs_l=img.3..0i24.2586.3624.2.3810.8.4.0.4.4.0.107.347.3j1.4.0...0.0...1c.1.Xt5Mw_s4qRY&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&amp;bvm=bv.1357700187,d.d2k&amp;fp=2f04a0f383f07855&amp;biw=1454&amp;bih=726\">Shire<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;m not too picky&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, the amount and quality of pure &#8216;design&#8217; that&#8217;s gone into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hobbit_(film_series)\">that movie franchise<\/a> is nothing short of amazing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Nothing much happened otherwise today. \u00a0I did struggle a bit with getting the paperwork going for my maternity leave, but I do hope that&#8217;ll sort itself out. \u00a0Oh, and this morning I had another 5 am mother nature&#8217;s call, except Bjarki woke up too, and neither of us managed to fall back asleep again, which was a bit of a \u00a0disaster. \u00a0Thankfully I managed to catch up on sleep later in the morning, when the house was quiet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went and saw the Hobbit (part 1!) this evening with some friends, so we are now unusually culturally up-to-date. \u00a0We decided to do the full fancy 3D with 48 frames per second, and it did look remarkably good. \u00a0Almost too good. \u00a0Borderline theatrical in places, but not really too jarring. The movie itself was<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/culturally-up-to-date\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}