{"id":247,"date":"2009-08-03T23:52:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2009-08-03T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T05:52:12","slug":"the-baltar-who-stole-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/03\/the-baltar-who-stole-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baltar Who Stole Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Spooky Juxtaposition Department&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battlestar_Galactica_(1978_TV_series)\">Battlestar Galactica (1978)<\/a>, toward the end of The Living Legend, Part 1, Baltar gloats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes&#8230; yes! Think of the impression upon the city of Gomorray when they learn that I, personally, led the final assault on Christmas! I mean, the humans!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, okay, I embellished that a bit (though not much). Seriously, now; go check this out on Hulu while the episode is still available. The resemblance is uncanny, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Colicos\">John Colicos<\/a> studied the Grinch. Freaky.<\/p>\n<p><em>With apologies to Dr. Seuss, without whom the lives of young children everywhere would be much more standard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Spooky Juxtaposition Department&#8230; In Battlestar Galactica (1978), toward the end of The Living Legend, Part 1, Baltar gloats: Yes&#8230; yes! Think of the impression upon the city of Gomorray when they learn that I, personally, led the final assault on Christmas! I mean, the humans! Yes, okay, I embellished that a bit (though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[34,37,36,35,38,39],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-dr-seuss","tag-grinch","tag-john-colicos","tag-random","tag-random-association"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FA-3Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}