{"id":2338,"date":"2010-05-18T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2010-05-18T02:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:52:00","slug":"original-barbarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"Original Barbarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, I talk about He-Man a lot on this blog. But for those who don&#8217;t know, there would be no He-Man without <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conan_the_Barbarian\">Conan the Barbarian<\/a>. And the visual language of Conan, and indeed of all <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sword_and_sorcery\">Sword &#038; Sorcery<\/a> fiction, was defined by one man, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Frazetta\">Frank Frazetta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the passing of the once and future master, here is my humble rendition of Conan the Barbarian:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/conanweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/conanweb.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Additional inspiration provided by my pal <a href=\"http:\/\/dfridolfs.deviantart.com\/\">Derek Fridolfs<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/dfridolfs.deviantart.com\/art\/Conan-134961553\">superb take on the barbarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s face it, I talk about He-Man a lot on this blog. But for those who don&#8217;t know, there would be no He-Man without Conan the Barbarian. And the visual language of Conan, and indeed of all Sword &#038; Sorcery fiction, was defined by one man, Frank Frazetta. To commemorate the passing of the once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}