{"id":51,"date":"2006-03-01T00:14:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T00:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=51"},"modified":"2006-03-01T00:14:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T00:14:59","slug":"here-come-the-monkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Here come the monkies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1972 installment &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Details?0068408\">Conquest of the <strong style=\"color: black; background-color: #ffff66\">Planet<\/strong> of the <strong style=\"color: black; background-color: #a0ffff\">Apes<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; then picked up the action in the year 1991. Since the events of the prior film, much has changed on Earth. A space-borne plague has killed all <strong style=\"color: black; background-color: #99ff99\">cats and dogs<\/strong> on the <strong style=\"color: black; background-color: #ffff66\">planet<\/strong>, while also stimulating mental development of the lower primates. At first, humans use primates to replace their lost pets, but eventually they find them useful for menial labor, which ultimately creates a slave class. Zira&#8217;s baby, now 18 and named Caesar (played again by McDowall) initiates a rebellion after seeing the cruel and inhumane treatment of his primate brethren at the hands of their human masters. The rise of the &#8220;<strong style=\"color: black; background-color: #ffff66\">Planet<\/strong> of the <strong style=\"color: black; background-color: #a0ffff\">Apes<\/strong>&#8221; had begun, using images that spoke to the racial intolerance and violence that plagued modern-day American society. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Damned Dirty Apes!\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/4761024.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/4761024.stm\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>???!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1972 installment &#8220;Conquest of the Planet of the Apes&#8221; then picked up the action in the year 1991. Since the events of the prior film, much has changed on Earth. A space-borne plague has killed all cats and dogs on the planet, while also stimulating mental development of the lower primates. At first, humans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}