{"id":2687,"date":"2009-05-15T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T08:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2009-05-15T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T08:31:39","slug":"so-you-think-an-octopus-would-win-against-a-shark-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/so-you-think-an-octopus-would-win-against-a-shark-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"So you think an octopus wouldn&#8217;t win against a shark, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the comments left on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube page<\/a> for the trailer to upcoming The Asylum film, <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/12\/battle-of-the-giants\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/strong><\/a>, express the opinion that the octopus wouldn&#8217;t have a chance. An invertebrate, albeit prehistoric, against a mega version of the ocean&#8217;s deadliest killer? Ridiculous!<\/p>\n<p>Well, think again. Check out this battle between a real &#8220;giant&#8221; octopus and a shark. They are basically the same size, relative to each other, as the main stars of the film. Warning: sharks were definitely harmed in the making of this film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PaOWJxEr3U0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PaOWJxEr3U0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the comments left on the YouTube page for the trailer to upcoming The Asylum film, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, express the opinion that the octopus wouldn&#8217;t have a chance. An invertebrate, albeit prehistoric, against a mega version &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/15\/so-you-think-an-octopus-would-win-against-a-shark-eh\/\">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":[4,75,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687"}],"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=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2690,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}