{"id":3557,"date":"2016-03-19T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2016-03-19T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:56:59","slug":"lizard-monster-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"Lizard Monster Theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Robin&#8217;s enduring fascination with lizard monsters (which has so far traced a route through Godzilla, the comic-book villain <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lizard_%28comics%29\">The Lizard<\/a>, and the Jurassic Park movies) has now landed him into an obsession with the Egyptian crocodile-god <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sobek\">Sobek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robin: &#8220;Can Sobek shoot crocodiles out of his hands?&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Well, in traditional Egyptian mythology, no. But you&#8217;re telling a story where he can and that&#8217;s cool.&#8221;<br \/>\nRobin: &#8220;I mean in real life.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t exist in real life. He&#8217;s a myth.&#8221;<br \/>\nRobin: &#8220;No he isn&#8217;t.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Yes he is.&#8221;<br \/>\nRobin: &#8220;No he isn&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, sensing that we had reached an impasse, I excused myself from the conversation. I have to admit the idea of shooting crocodiles from your hands sounds like a pretty awesome superpower!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Robin&#8217;s enduring fascination with lizard monsters (which has so far traced a route through Godzilla, the comic-book villain The Lizard, and the Jurassic Park movies) has now landed him into an obsession with the Egyptian crocodile-god Sobek. Robin: &#8220;Can Sobek shoot crocodiles out of his hands?&#8221; Me: &#8220;Well, in traditional Egyptian mythology, no. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3561,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}