{"id":1617,"date":"2008-06-02T08:18:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T07:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2008-06-02T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T07:18:43","slug":"death-and-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Death and Badminton"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>A while ago, Felix told me about a parody he had once seen of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Seventh Seal<\/span>, in which Death appears on a very windy seafront, and when he announces himself the Knight thinks for a second and challenges him to a game of badminton. It doesn&#8217;t seem to be anywhere on youtube, but I did find some evidence that it really existed, in comments to <a href=\"http:\/\/davidnessle.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/31\/doodn\/\">a Swedish blog entry<\/a>, where someone called Frederik Tersmeden <a href=\"http:\/\/davidnessle.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/31\/doodn\/#comment-36944\">claims to have made the clip<\/a> as part of a series of short films for a comedy festival. He adds that the wind was so loud in the microphones that they had to redub the whole thing with the original soundtrack, changing only &#8220;Chess&#8221; for &#8220;Badminton&#8221;&#8212;with glorious results where Death asks the Knight how he knew he played, and the knight replies, &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it in paintings, and heard about it in songs&#8221;. <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>A while ago, Felix told me about a parody he had once seen of The Seventh Seal, in which Death appears on a very windy seafront, and when he announces himself the Knight thinks for a second and challenges him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}