{"id":156,"date":"2007-05-29T23:56:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-05-30T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T07:40:42","slug":"more-than-meets-the-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"More Than Meets The Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care much for <i>Transformers<\/I>, myself, and have only vague memories of an incursion into a Autobot melting plant that survives from my youth. I was more of a <i>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/I> fan, always.<\/p>\n<p>That said, this fellow is awesome:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/images\/optimash.jpg\" hspace=2 vspace=2 border=1><br \/>\n<b>Optimash Prime<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasbro.com\/playskool\/mrpotatohead\/default.cfm?page=browse&#038;product_id=17512\">Artoo-Potatoo<\/a> is also pretty cool, and this is infinitely better than the fairly lame &#8220;Spider-Spud&#8221; that they&#8217;ve also got going on. &#8220;Peter Parker Potato&#8221;? Please! Only if it can brush its hair over its eyes and punch its red headed potato blackmailed ex-girlfriend in one of the most embarrassing scenes ever committed to celluloid!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to see <i>Transformers<\/I> for masochism value (and out of curiosity to see if Optimus Prime dies &#8211; everyone <i>wants<\/I> him to), and I almost bought this toy today. Key word is <i>almost<\/I>: I decided that I couldn&#8217;t really justify spending $25 on a novelty potato. The fact that such pointless artistry exists in this world warms my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care much for Transformers, myself, and have only vague memories of an incursion into a Autobot melting plant that survives from my youth. I was more of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan, always. That said, this fellow is awesome: Optimash Prime Artoo-Potatoo is also pretty cool, and this is infinitely better than the fairly lame &#8220;Spider-Spud&#8221; that they&#8217;ve also got going on. &#8220;Peter Parker Potato&#8221;? Please! Only if it can brush its hair over its eyes and punch its red headed potato blackmailed ex-girlfriend in one of the most embarrassing scenes ever committed to celluloid! I&#8217;m going <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-toys"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-2w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}