{"id":2117,"date":"2017-10-12T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2017-10-12T14:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T18:55:09","slug":"2117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/10\/12\/2117\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Horror Film Fest: Diary of A Wimpy Alien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast is presenting a different horror short for the Daily Horror Film Fest. Some straight up scary, and some funny. Every Thursday, we\u2019ll be presenting a different horror parody from <a href=\"http:\/\/andyouweb.com\/wordpress\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And You Films<\/a>. Today\u2019s selection is <em>Diary of A Wimpy Alien<\/em>, a mashup of up <em>Diary of A Wimpy Kid<\/em> and <em>Alien<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought it would be fun to contrast the awkwardness of surviving the middle school life cycle, with the horror of surviving the xenomorph life cycle,\u201d says writer\/director Brendan Jackson Rogers. \u201cAlso, it was a great excuse to buy an alien mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next week, you\u2019ll get the sequel to <em>Diary<\/em>, so make sure to pay attention this week so you won\u2019t feel lost. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TuYWtrkHEb4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day in October, the Department of Tangents Blog &#038; Podcast is presenting a different horror short for the Daily Horror Film Fest&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1422,5],"tags":[1462,965,667,641,1463,1461],"class_list":["post-2117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","tag-alien","tag-and-you-films","tag-brendan-rogers","tag-daily-horror-film-fest","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-alien","tag-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DHFF-Diary-of-a-Wimpy-Alien-BANNER.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7lGwW-2117","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}