{"id":1,"date":"2007-11-18T19:41:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T02:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cfchimp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:50:25","slug":"beowulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/2007\/11\/beowulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Beowulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go and see it. If you have the option to take in the 3D version I&#8217;d recommend it. Regardless of whether or not you like the movie it gives you the feeling that you are watching something revolutionary. I can remember having the same feeling watch Toy Story 10 or 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Further (and more importantly) I&#8217;d recommend checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seamus_Heaney\">Seamus Heaney&#8217;s<\/a> translation. If you are too lazy to read it, he will read it to you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AaB0trCztM0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. It is a tremendous work.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Beowuld Cover Art\" href=\"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/heaneybeowulfio7.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/heaneybeowulfio7.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Beowuld Cover Art\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go and see it. If you have the option to take in the 3D version I&#8217;d recommend it. Regardless of whether or not you like the movie it gives you the feeling that you are watching something revolutionary. I can remember having the same feeling watch Toy Story 10 or 15 years ago. Further (and &#8230; <a title=\"Beowulf\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/2007\/11\/beowulf\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beowulf\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-books","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbVg43-beowulf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csimmons.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}