{"id":4927,"date":"2012-06-11T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2012-06-11T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T23:54:36","slug":"epic-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"Epic stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I just had to share this video.<\/strong> It&#8217;s something a few of us have been searching for for some time. The theme song from the old 1950s\/60s TV series, <i>Tales of The Vikings<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xigQZZ5XUo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A cheesy series? From all I can remember, yes (note the comment that says only three episodes may still exist. So we may never know for sure).<\/p>\n<p>But let it be set down for the historical record\u2014if anyone wonders what it was that first sparked author Lars Walker&#8217;s interest in Vikings, it was this series. I actually only caught it in re-runs, but it caught me good and hard in return. I realized, in a blaze of enlightenment, that nothing in this world was so cool and romantic as Vikings, and that Vikings were my birthright.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While we&#8217;re on the subject of rousing entertainment,<\/strong> I finally made it to the theater to see <i>The Avengers<\/i> this weekend. My reaction: <i>Holy moly<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t love it as much as, say, <i>The Lord of the Rings<\/i> movies. But I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever had such a pure entertainment experience in a theater. It was way, way longer than I think any movie should be, but <i>I didn&#8217;t care<\/i>. I hit the light button on my watch at one point, and realized I&#8217;d been in my seat for a full two hours. I couldn&#8217;t believe it had been that long.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that the whole comic book thing, and the ancillary stuff (like movies; comic books don&#8217;t actually sell that big anymore) is almost a form of myth. Having cut ourselves loose from our cultural tethers, we&#8217;re reverting to simpler, more elemental kinds of literature. Instead of epic poems, we have epic movies.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Unless I get a movie deal for my books, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just had to share this video. It&#8217;s something a few of us have been searching for for some time. The theme song from the old 1950s\/60s TV series, Tales of The Vikings. A cheesy series? From all I can remember, yes (note the comment that says only three episodes may still exist. So we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4927\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Epic stuff<\/span> <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1788,2733,2780,3272],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-marvel","tag-tales-of-the-vikings","tag-the-avengers","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}