{"id":188,"date":"2008-01-03T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/03\/siegfried-slays-the-dragon\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T17:43:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T07:43:23","slug":"siegfried-slays-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/03\/siegfried-slays-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Siegfried Slays the Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fritz Lang&#8217;s 1924 <em>Die Nibelungen: Siegfried<\/em> &#8212; or at least the first Canto: &#8220;How Siegfried Slayed the Dragon&#8221; &#8212; probably should appear on any list of giant monster films, though of course many such lists exclude dragons as such. At any rate, here is the Dragon sequence:<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zu-J9ewSDrc&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zu-J9ewSDrc&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The dragon isn&#8217;t Godzilla-sized but it&#8217;s no midget either. Not bad SFX, considering it was done using full-size puppetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fritz Lang&#8217;s 1924 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried &#8212; or at least the first Canto: &#8220;How Siegfried Slayed the Dragon&#8221; &#8212; probably should appear on any list of giant monster films, though of course many such lists exclude dragons as such. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/03\/siegfried-slays-the-dragon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,4,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}