{"id":32371,"date":"2009-06-02T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32371"},"modified":"2009-06-02T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:57:11","slug":"tv-watch-guillermo-del-toro-on-ferguson-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/06\/02\/32371-tv-watch-guillermo-del-toro-on-ferguson-video\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Watch: Guillermo del Toro on Ferguson Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Michelf<\/strong> writes: On Monday night, Guillermo del Toro was on Craig Ferguson&#8217;s late night talk show to promote his vampire book, &#8220;The Strain.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after sitting down, GDT remarked on Ferguson&#8217;s coffee cup, shaped like a coiled snake.  Craig said that since GDT was working on &#8220;The Hobbit&#8221;, maybe he should put a big snake in with all the other creatures. GDT said, &#8220;Well, there IS a &#8220;worm&#8221;.  Craig said, &#8220;Oh, yeah, Smaug the Dragon&#8221;, and held the cup in front of his face, pretending to talk like Smaug&#8211;&#8220;Bilbo Baggins, You&#8217;d better be careful&#8230;!&#8221; GDT asked if he could borrow the cup for about three years. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They continued on about the book, which GDT said harks back to the much scarier vampire tales and historical accounts of &#8220;real&#8221; vampires he devoured as a youth.  As a successful adult, he was delighted to be able to purchase an original copy of a vampire account from the 1700s that he had read as a kid.  He &#038; the host had a total geek-out moment about how much they loved and dreaded H.P.Lovecraft tales, when GDT displayed a related ring on his hand, &#038; Craig utterly forgot his audience as he examined the prize.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PkgNAUoCwq0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelf writes: On Monday night, Guillermo del Toro was on Craig Ferguson&#8217;s late night talk show to promote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[435,87],"tags":[767,577],"class_list":["post-32371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guillermo-del-toro","category-events-television","tag-craig-ferguson","tag-the-strain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-8q7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}