{"id":8548,"date":"2015-01-05T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2015-01-03T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:33:49","slug":"the-force-jess-to-finally-watch-labyrinth-watch-a-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8548","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Force Jess To Finally Watch Labyrinth&#8221; watch-a-long!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a youngster in the\u00a080&#8217;s, there is a very high likelihood that one movie, and one movie alone, caused you to first be aware of the power of raw, forbidden sexuality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LabyrinthBallroomscene.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8549 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/LabyrinthBallroomscene-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"LabyrinthBallroomscene\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Henson&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Labyrinth<\/em>, a monument to fantasy, puppetry, and snugly packed male genitalia was the movie that made me first aware of the hotness of age gap dynamics. Bronwyn Green and I <i>love<\/i> this movie. We even have this friendship test for new people we meet: if someone doesn&#8217;t like\u00a0<em>Labyrinth<\/em>, it is unlikely that we will have much else in common.<\/p>\n<p>So imagine our horror when we found out that Jessica Jarman has never, ever, in her entire life, seen\u00a0<em>Labyrinth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a situation that must be rectified. What better way than with a Twitter watch-a-long. And what better time than to celebrate David Bowie&#8217;s 68th birthday?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The &#8220;Force Jess To Finally Watch Labyrinth&#8221; watch-a-long!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thursday, January 8th, at 9 P.M. EST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hashtag: #MagicBulge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hop on Netflix or start your DVD (or VHS. You know you own it on one of those formats) at 9 P.M. EST and tweet to the hashtag #MagicBulge. We can all share our fond memories of the vague discomfort caused by David Bowie&#8217;s tights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a youngster in the\u00a080&#8217;s, there is a very high likelihood that one movie, and one movie alone, caused you to first be&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=8548\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;Force Jess To Finally Watch Labyrinth&#8221; watch-a-long!<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8550,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions\/8550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}