{"id":188,"date":"2006-01-09T20:23:41","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/09\/vince-kong-meets-king-kong\/"},"modified":"2017-10-01T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T13:19:58","slug":"vince-kong-meets-king-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/vince-kong-meets-king-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Kong meets King Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mat<\/a> made me smile this morning when he sent me a link to his friend Vince’s latest blog entry<\/a>. Going to see King Kong at the cinema? A perfect opportunity to re-use that gorilla costume that’s been hiding in the cupboard!<\/div>\n

Mat made me smile this morning when he sent me a link to his friend Vince’s latest blog entry. Going to see King Kong at the cinema? A perfect opportunity to re-use that gorilla costume that’s been hiding in the cupboard!<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6242,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/09\/6242\/","url_meta":{"origin":188,"position":0},"title":"Just had that \u2018difficult fourth\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"9 August 2020","format":"status","excerpt":"Just had that \u2018difficult fourth lockdown home haircut\u2019 by my wife. 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