{"id":11433,"date":"2011-02-21T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/02\/21\/sharktopus-just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-see-what-movies-are-coming-out\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T07:00:01","slug":"sharktopus-just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-see-what-movies-are-coming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110221-01\/?p=11433","title":{"rendered":"Sharktopus: Just when you thought it was safe to see what movies are coming out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharktopus: <i>Half-shark. Half-octopus. All-killer.<\/i>\n I am not making that up.\n The Web site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharktopusmovie.com\/\"> sharktopusmovie.com<\/a>, presumably because <a href=\"http:\/\/sharktopus.com\"> sharktopus.com<\/a> was already taken. I am not making that up.\n I guess they wanted to ride the coattails of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2010\/03\/31\/9987780.aspx#megashark\"> <i>Megashark vs. Giant Octopus<\/i><\/a>?\n Even more disturbing discovery: <i>Megashark vs. Giant Octopus<\/i> has a sequel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movieline.com\/2010\/12\/trailer-megashark-vs-crocosaurusvs-steve-urkel.php\"> <i>Megashark versus Crocosaurus<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> One of my colleagues says that he&#8217;s going to wait for the sequel: <i>Sharktopuses on a Plane<\/i>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharktopus: Half-shark. Half-octopus. All-killer. I am not making that up. The Web site is sharktopusmovie.com, presumably because sharktopus.com was already taken. I am not making that up. I guess they wanted to ride the coattails of Megashark vs. Giant Octopus? Even more disturbing discovery: Megashark vs. Giant Octopus has a sequel: Megashark versus Crocosaurus. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-11433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Sharktopus: Half-shark. Half-octopus. All-killer. I am not making that up. The Web site is sharktopusmovie.com, presumably because sharktopus.com was already taken. I am not making that up. I guess they wanted to ride the coattails of Megashark vs. Giant Octopus? Even more disturbing discovery: Megashark vs. Giant Octopus has a sequel: Megashark versus Crocosaurus. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}