{"id":79,"date":"2006-07-27T20:33:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T01:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2006-07-27T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T01:33:31","slug":"the-ballad-of-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/the-ballad-of-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We open with our hero cruising the known earth for evil-doers and stray ice cream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 01\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman01.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>However, within only a short time (or thereabouts), the man of steel targets his opposite and zooms for justice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 02\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But one sweeping pass with his Ribbon of Doom misses its intended target and Superman careens off into the depths of space&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 03\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But with hardly a nanosecond lost, our hero is once again upon his prey &#8211; the scent of victory full in his nostrils!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 04\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With a feint and a laugh, Superman shrugs off his intent and leads the Evildoer away from the known earth:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 05\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman05.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Another swipe at victory!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 06\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman06.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But the Man of Steel is himself mortally struck and never found any ice cream anyway!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 07\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman07.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>His great arms flung to mother sky in supplication for his life&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 08\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman08.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Superman is vanquished&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Superman 09\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/superman09.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lois Lane sat and watched it all and took lots of notes, mostly on how to get a better script next time, hook up with a less-hammy actor and talk to her SAG rep about the ice cream bit:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lois Lane\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/loislane.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We open with our hero cruising the known earth for evil-doers and stray ice cream&#8230; However, within only a short time (or thereabouts), the man of steel targets his opposite and zooms for justice&#8230; But one sweeping pass with his Ribbon of Doom misses its intended target and Superman careens off into the depths of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}