{"id":7446,"date":"2012-11-14T01:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T05:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2012-11-12T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:19:54","slug":"those-fake-crocs-are-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7446","title":{"rendered":"Those Fake Crocs are Real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z111412bond_croc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\nRemember<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">\u00a0the stunt in <em><strong>Live and Let Die<\/strong><\/em> when <strong>James Bond<\/strong> [<strong>Roger Moore<\/strong>] ran across the backs of<strong> crocodiles<\/strong>? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I had always thought that they were <em>mechanical<\/em><strong> crocs<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">They weren&#8217;t. \u00a0Those <strong>crocs<\/strong> were the <strong>real thing<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The stuntman, <strong>Ross Kananga<\/strong>, had to attempt the stunt several times to get it right. \u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/11\/09\/james-bond-every-attempted-cr.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>you can see here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, he had a few close calls. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The video makes the stunt, which I had always thought a bit corny, more impressive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">A tip o&#8217; <strong>Oddjob&#8217;s<\/strong> steel rimmed derby to <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BoingBoing<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for the original post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember\u00a0the stunt in Live and Let Die when James Bond [Roger Moore] ran across the backs of crocodiles? \u00a0 I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}