{"id":1432,"date":"2009-07-09T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T13:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:39","slug":"total-eclipse-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/total-eclipse-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Eclipse of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-593496055367495201\">I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for Bonnie Tyler&#8217;s &#8220;Total Eclipse of the Heart&#8221;. It combined traditional Jim Steinman anthemic passion with the best of eighties excess, and managed to be sad and moving at the same time.<\/div>\n<div>Then it became a staple of the end-of-year SFSoc weekend at university, with a mash-up video of classic Dr Who scenes (tragically still not available on YouTube, as far as I can tell), so it also became associated with the bitter-sweet end of term feeling that you were saying goodbye to your friends, even if you were going to see them again in September.<\/div>\n<div>And now I like it even more. Cue the Literal Video Version.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lj-x9ygQEGA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lj-x9ygQEGA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-593496055367495201\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for Bonnie Tyler&#8217;s &#8220;Total Eclipse of the Heart&#8221;. It combined traditional Jim Steinman anthemic passion with the best of eighties excess, and managed to be sad and moving at the same time. Then it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/total-eclipse-of-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[402,142,76],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-music","tag-silly","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4103,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/4103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}