{"id":51,"date":"2010-05-01T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=51"},"modified":"2010-05-01T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T12:43:29","slug":"kaiju-haiku-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Kaiju Haiku Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\"><strong>Tim, Defender of the Earth<\/strong><\/a> will know, I&#8217;m a MASSIVE fan of <strong>giant monsters<\/strong>. Imagine my delight this week when I discovered this <a href=\"http:\/\/godzillahaiku.tumblr.com\/\"><strong>site full of beautiful haiku about Godzilla and other classic <\/strong><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/godzillahaiku.tumblr.com\/\">kaiju<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Warren Ellis<\/strong> (on whose wonderful swear-filled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\">blog<\/a> I found the link) was particularly taken with this one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53  aligncenter\" title=\"tumblr_l14k68Jjk81qbot00o1_500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tumblr_l14k68Jjk81qbot00o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tumblr_l14k68Jjk81qbot00o1_500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tumblr_l14k68Jjk81qbot00o1_500-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But my current favourite is this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52  aligncenter\" title=\"tumblr_l1fzo9LVzt1qbot00o1_500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tumblr_l1fzo9LVzt1qbot00o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tumblr_l1fzo9LVzt1qbot00o1_500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/tumblr_l1fzo9LVzt1qbot00o1_500-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m linking to stuff, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhotline.com\/samenthoven\"><strong>my page<\/strong><\/a> on a new site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhotline.com\/index.php\"><strong>Author Hotline<\/strong><\/a>. There&#8217;s a whole bunch of other authors on there too &#8211; including my fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\"><strong>Trapped By Monsters<\/strong><\/a> victims <strong>Andy Briggs<\/strong>, <strong>Mark Robson<\/strong> and  <strong>Joe Craig<\/strong> &#8211; all answering questions such as &#8216;What were you like at school?&#8217; &#8216;What strange habits do you have?&#8217; and &#8216;What&#8217;s your favourite food?&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhotline.com\/profiles.php\"><strong>Take a look<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone familiar with Tim, Defender of the Earth will know, I&#8217;m a MASSIVE fan of giant monsters. Imagine my delight this week when I discovered this site full of beautiful haiku about Godzilla and other classic kaiju. Warren Ellis (on whose wonderful swear-filled blog I found the link) was particularly taken with this one: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}