{"id":1018,"date":"2006-02-11T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T18:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2006-02-11T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T04:28:08","slug":"lineage-of-a-giant-walking-monster-eating-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/lineage-of-a-giant-walking-monster-eating-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineage of a Giant Walking Monster Eating Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.godzillatemple.com\/hidden\/gmovie17.jpg\" alt=\"Biollante\" align=right \/><br \/>\nHow did a giant monster eating plant, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tohokingdom.com\/web_pages\/kajiu_bios\/biollante.htm\">Biollante<\/a> come to attach Godzilla? In three easy evolutionary steps, beginning with:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0054033\/\">Little Shop of Horrors (1960)<\/a> in which Audrey II gets hungry and says the famous line &#8220;Feed Me!&#8221; Her diet is limited to humans.<br \/>\nNext the plant walks and multiplies:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055894\/\">Day of the Triffids (1962)<\/a> in which the prey, humans again, are struck blind as they watch a meteor shower. A shower that also brings plant spores!<br \/>\nFinally, the spirit of a young girl, a rose bush and Godzilla are blended, along with their DNA, to create Biollante:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097444\/\">Gojira tai Biorante (1989)<\/a> aka &#8220;Godzilla vs. Biollante&#8221; in which the walking growing plant develops a taste for lizard &#8212; one of my favorite Godzilla movies, lyrical some call it. For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stomptokyo.com\/movies\/godzilla-vs-biollante.html\">the best review see StompTokyo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of other movies with similar plants, please let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did a giant monster eating plant, Biollante come to attach Godzilla? In three easy evolutionary steps, beginning with: Little Shop of Horrors (1960) in which Audrey II gets hungry and says the famous line &#8220;Feed Me!&#8221; Her diet is limited to humans. Next the plant walks and multiplies: Day of the Triffids (1962) in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}