{"id":12788,"date":"2019-10-14T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/?p=12788"},"modified":"2019-10-14T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:48:06","slug":"mike-raineys-bitter-melon-gothtober-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2019\/10\/14\/mike-raineys-bitter-melon-gothtober-day-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rainey&#8217;s &#8220;Bitter Melon&#8221; Gothtober Day 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bitter_melon_shot-498x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12849\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bitter_melon_shot-498x500.png 498w, http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bitter_melon_shot-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bitter_melon_shot-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bitter_melon_shot-100x100.png 100w, http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/bitter_melon_shot.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><figcaption>During the film, another orange being walks by&#8230; but not of the gourd family! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\">Visit Gothtober 2019 and check out DAY 14! <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coming to you all the way from FRANCE is this Terry Gross-style interview with a pumpkin, who in all honesty, is a bit prickly. I don&#8217;t know if you could expect such countenance from every squash you come across. Talking pumpkins are rare, so it&#8217;s a very informative expos\u00e9 on the life of a jack-o&#8217;lantern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you wondering how this piece was made? Here is a special &#8220;Behind the Scenes&#8221; look at how Mike engineered the talking pumpkin: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Bitter_Melon_VFX_Step-through_FIN.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And just so you know, the technologically advanced &#8220;movie puppeting stick&#8221; Mike used to manipulate the pumpkin&#8217;s jaw was: a chopstick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, Mike, for introducing us to Jacques the pumpkin, please tell him he&#8217;s got lots of fans. Happy Halloweeeennnn!!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit Gothtober 2019 and check out DAY 14! Coming to you all the way from FRANCE is this Terry Gross-style interview with a pumpkin, who in all honesty, is a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/2019\/10\/14\/mike-raineys-bitter-melon-gothtober-day-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike Rainey&#8217;s &#8220;Bitter Melon&#8221; Gothtober Day 14&#8243;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[614,1184,1209,1208,56,58,1207],"class_list":["post-12788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cat","tag-france","tag-french","tag-mike","tag-orange","tag-pumpkin","tag-rainey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13101,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788\/revisions\/13101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gothtober.com\/gothblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}