{"id":10,"date":"2007-07-09T20:48:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T20:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/?p=10"},"modified":"2012-10-23T18:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:13:13","slug":"planet-earth-from-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/2007\/07\/09\/planet-earth-from-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Earth on the BBC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone been watching Planet Earth? Discovery was showing it every fifteen minutes there for a while, and then Animal Planet started showing it. It&#8217;s a multi-part series filmed by the BBC and I just bought it for my parents at Costco. I watched some of it on Animal Planet, and it was narrated by Sigourney Weaver, and that was nice, whatever. But on the DVD, it&#8217;s narrated by Sir David Attenborough, and WELL, that&#8217;s a totally different cup of tea, now ain&#8217;t it? Not only does everything sound like Shakespeare, but he talks about glaciers and he pronounces it &#8220;glass ears&#8221;. What really got me hooked was I was out to dinner with my friend M. and M. said, &#8220;Have you seen the bird that has plenty of food and no enemies? Do you know what he does all day? He cleans up the forest floor&#8230;and then he dances. FOR NOBODY.&#8221; And sure enough, yes, he does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P85LoHftEKs\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P85LoHftEKs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think my favorite part is when he wipes down the branches with a leaf, because, you know, those jungles get so DUSTY. And then he shakes the leaf off a plant and takes the leaf away. Damn leaves! In the jungle! And seriously, the dances the birds of paradise do, I can understand why the female is like, &#8220;No, I have to wash my drab plumage tonight. I&#8217;m busy.&#8221; The males, they try so hard. &#8220;Look at my feathery goodness!&#8221; They scream at the female. &#8220;Do not avoid the feathery goodness! It is iridescent and I look like a Las Vegas showgirl and I am hopping around like I have a thumbtack in my keister! Ahhhhhh!&#8221; I too would be a little overwhelmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone been watching Planet Earth? Discovery was showing it every fifteen minutes there for a while, and then Animal Planet started showing it. It&#8217;s a multi-part series filmed by the BBC and I just bought it for my parents at Costco. I watched some of it on Animal Planet, and it was narrated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beastiesbeastiesbeasties","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-newyork.com.fwtrading.x10host.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}