{"id":650,"date":"2008-07-15T01:07:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2008-07-15T01:07:47","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:07:47","slug":"to-be-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/to-be-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for the hotly anticipated &#8220;The Dark Knight,&#8221; it seems that everyone is talking about, as the Joker puts it, &#8220;The Batman.&#8221;  While he may be &#8220;at home, washing his tights&#8221; (okay, that would never happen, Alfred would handle that chore) it is precisely that that idea which so endears Bruce Wayne&#8217;s alter ego to the public.  Unlike other superheros, Batman is normal.  What I mean is that he (in many ways) is a just an incredibly above average man &#8211; he does not have any special powers, period.  He is like you and me, in our dreams.<br \/>\nScientific America has an interview with E. Paul Zehr, associate professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a 26-year practitioner of Chito-Ryu karate-do who happens to have a book titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=dark-knight-shift-why-bat&amp;sc=rss\">&#8220;Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero&#8221;<\/a> coming out.<br \/>\nAfter further analysis, it&#8217;s true: it would be very, very hard but it could be done.  If all the stars in the sky are in alignment, I could be Batman.<br \/>\nVia Steve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for the hotly anticipated &#8220;The Dark Knight,&#8221; it seems that everyone is talking about, as the Joker puts it, &#8220;The Batman.&#8221; While he may be &#8220;at home, washing his tights&#8221; (okay, that would never happen, Alfred would handle that chore) it is precisely that that idea which so endears Bruce Wayne&#8217;s alter ego [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,262,437,558,630],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-batman","tag-geek","tag-nerd","tag-science","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}