{"id":207,"date":"2009-04-29T23:57:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/29\/string-theory-explained\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T17:47:42","slug":"string-theory-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/29\/string-theory-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"String Theory Explained (with Zombies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I mentioned reading an anthology called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0786714956\"><i>The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures<\/i><\/a>, citing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityplus.co.uk\/nonfiction\/intmolly.htm\">Molly Brown<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;The Selene Gardening Society&#8221; for particular praise. Brown recently got back in touch, telling me about the short film she and a group had friends had made to take part in a &#8220;48-hour film challenge.&#8221; Each team in the challenge, she explained, was assigned a title, a line of dialogue, and a required prop, then given two days to make a movie incorporating all three elements.<\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s team was told to make a film called &#8220;THIS IS&#8230;&#8221; that included a map of Europe with three red circles drawn on it, in which somebody said, &#8220;The floor dropped away from me before I started to follow it.&#8221; And here we are&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cZBDMS7hA7I&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cZBDMS7hA7I&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Brown as the housewife&#8212; &#8220;who bears a remarkable resemblance to my mother!&#8221; she adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I mentioned reading an anthology called The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures, citing Molly Brown&#8216;s &#8220;The Selene Gardening Society&#8221; for particular praise. Brown recently got back in touch, telling me about the short film she and a group had friends had made to take part in a &#8220;48-hour film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}