{"id":1555,"date":"2007-09-03T06:22:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T10:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2012-09-14T00:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T04:23:31","slug":"gidget-puts-away-her-white-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1555\/gidget-puts-away-her-white-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated Shorts &#8211; Last Day of Summer in the Tropical Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>(or) <span>Gidget Puts Away her White Shoes<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/7960762796\/\" title=\"endofsummer by idyllopus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8442\/7960762796_d13a3e94ab_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" alt=\"endofsummer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Animated Shorts &#8211; Last Day of Summer In The Tropical Zone (or) Gidget Puts Away her White Shoes<br \/>\n14 x 8.75, digital painting<br \/>\nJ Kearns 2007<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idyllopuspress\/7960762796\/in\/photostream\/lightbox\/\" title=\"Lightbox enlargement\">Lightbox enlargement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We watched <em>Gidget<\/em>, which I realized, with some surprise, I&#8217;d never before seen.<\/p>\n<p>The long and short of this trailblazer surfer movie&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For the girls:  Get your feet wet in order to win the teen idol.  Let him nearly drown you once, it&#8217;s all part of his resistance to growing up and crossing over from the boy gang to domestic bliss.<\/p>\n<p>For the boys:  Don&#8217;t be fooled by the Big Kahuna.  He really wishes he had been a preppie, like you, instead of fighting in Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Which was the most interesting part of the movie, the acknowledgment that from war return those who aren&#8217;t interested or can&#8217;t integrate themselves back into traditional society and aren&#8217;t anxious to talk why.<\/p>\n<p>I was unimpressed, but watched because of its place in history and because Cliff Robertson was playing the Kahuna.  There are a few surprises, like Gidget, who&#8217;s got goals and the determination to meet them, resolving all her problems with bribery.  And some mysteries, like why James Darren always looked like a different person when he was singing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(or) Gidget Puts Away her White Shoes Animated Shorts &#8211; Last Day of Summer In The Tropical Zone (or) Gidget Puts Away her White Shoes 14 x 8.75, digital painting J Kearns 2007 Lightbox enlargement We watched Gidget, which I realized, with some surprise, I&#8217;d never before seen. The long and short of this trailblazer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-paintings","category-cinema","tag-animated-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}