{"id":5444,"date":"2009-10-07T23:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T03:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2009-10-08T02:32:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T06:32:46","slug":"cats-got-your-tonguewith-his-big-freakin-lion-o-sword-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=5444","title":{"rendered":"Cat Got Your Tongue&#8230;With His Big, Freakin&#8217;, Lion-O Sword, Baby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardhero.com\/thundercats.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5450\" title=\"lion-o1\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lion-o1.jpg\" alt=\"lion-o1\" width=\"500\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lion-o1.jpg 499w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/lion-o1-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t a big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thundercatsho.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>ThunderCats<\/em><\/a> fan. They raised their leonine heads in 1985, long after I&#8217;d stopped watching violent, action-packed, Saturdaymorningesque animation. In fact, the only reason I probably know anything at all about this profoundly ugly pride of superheroes is that my youngest brother, Louis, couldn&#8217;t stop talking about them.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Lou, knock yourself out: Early next year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardhero.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Hard Hero Enterprises<\/a>, makers of collectible fantasy and comic book statuary, will release a limited-edition, cold-cast porcelain statue of Lion-O, leader of the T-Cats, above.<\/p>\n<p>Sculpted by master artist Paul Bennett, the fully-painted piece is a whopping 14 inches high from its rugged, stone outcropping base to the tip of Lion-O&#8217;s gleaming sword. Packed with detail, as you can see in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardhero.com\/liono_movie.html\"  target=\"_blank\">this 360-degree QuickTime movie<\/a>, the work comes with a &#8220;color collector box,&#8221; whatever that is, and retails for $199.00, $215.00 for one with Bennett&#8217;s John Hancock &#8216;pon, thus. Hey: Since Lou just had a birthday, maybe his wife will jump in with one more present. Cue intro.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y-sOaUAgbB4?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y-sOaUAgbB4?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/tomopop.com\/thundercats-statue-to-bust-out-lion-o-and-the-sword-of-omens-8995.phtml\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>tomopop.com<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t a big ThunderCats fan. They raised their leonine heads in 1985, long after I&#8217;d stopped watching violent, action-packed, Saturdaymorningesque animation. In fact, the only reason I probably know anything at all about this profoundly ugly pride of superheroes is that my youngest brother, Louis, couldn&#8217;t stop talking about them. Well, Lou, knock yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,48,12,45,21,51,8,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}