{"id":847,"date":"2004-02-22T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/22\/mangling-the-guide\/"},"modified":"2004-02-22T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T21:52:00","slug":"mangling-the-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/22\/mangling-the-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangling The Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0371724\/fullcredits\">here<\/a> you will see the current state of play on the new Hitch-Hiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy film. (It&#8217;s been referred to on Slashdot.)<\/p>\n<p>Does it seem to you that the casting is just a tad wierd? I mean, a rapper Ford Prefect and a migdget Marvin. It&#8217;s giving me all the bad vibes Hollywood adaptions usually have. I wonder what other characters they&#8217;re going to mis-cast and how much they&#8217;ve changed the whole story since Douglas Adams passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you look here you will see the current state of play on the new Hitch-Hiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy film. (It&#8217;s been referred to on Slashdot.) Does it seem to you that the casting is just a tad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/22\/mangling-the-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-dF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}