{"id":2431,"date":"2011-04-17T21:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2011-04-17T21:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:11:56","slug":"shaun-the-dalek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/04\/17\/shaun-the-dalek\/","title":{"rendered":"Exterminate the sheep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little E and I have been watching Shaun The Sheep quite a bit.  For those not in the know, it&#8217;s an amusing series of short (~7 minutes) stop-motion animated funnies from Aardman, the UK studio behind Wallace &#038; Gromit, about a herd of sheep whose fondest wish seems to be to share in the creature comforts of their human owner, despite the best efforts of his sheep-herding dog.  Shaun is the cleverest of the sheep and hatches schemes that lead to hilarity, etc. etc.  In one of the shows we saw tonight, the sheep set up a surprise costume party at the man&#8217;s house, and they themselves were the guests.  See if you spot something unusual in the screen shots below. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/forumpix\/sheep1.jpg\" alt=\"Shaun the Sheep\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Look over there on the right!  Here he is greeting the man as he waddles in the door:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/forumpix\/sheep2.jpg\" alt=\"Shaun the Sheep\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and here he is, flummoxed by a flight of stairs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/forumpix\/sheep3.jpg\" alt=\"Shaun the Sheep\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little background thing (and Shaun The Sheep is shown on CBBC, the BBC&#8217;s afternoon kids&#8217; programming block), but we both thought it was amusing.  Little E knew what that sheep was dressed as <em>right away.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little E and I have been watching Shaun The Sheep quite a bit. For those not in the know, it&#8217;s an amusing series of short (~7 minutes) stop-motion animated funnies from Aardman, the UK studio behind Wallace &#038; Gromit, about a herd of sheep whose fondest wish seems to be to share in the creature comforts of their human owner, despite the best efforts of his sheep-herding dog. Shaun is the cleverest of the sheep and hatches schemes that lead to hilarity, etc. etc. In one of the shows we saw tonight, the sheep set up a surprise costume party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television-movies","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}