{"id":538,"date":"2021-06-14T21:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenthecaterpillar.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2021-06-14T21:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:23:37","slug":"glen-introduces-the-bug-world-to-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/2021\/06\/14\/glen-introduces-the-bug-world-to-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Introduces the Bug World to Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I may have been wandering around BritBox like a lost lamb when I found something called Upstart Crow – which is apparently a very British comedy about Shakespeare’s life and it had me in stitches with it’s creative<\/em> reinterpretations of the classics. This got me to wondering what Shakespeare would mean to a cheerfully stoned caterpillar. And this is what I came up with. I might be biased but I think putting Glen in a fur coat is always a great thing to do. I JUST WANT TO HUG HIM! But I’ll resist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Making of Glen <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I made Glen SUPER late this week. It’s past 5PM on Monday and I just finished it. SIIIIGH. That being said I took the background from Glen Visit’s Popple’s Dungeon<\/a> and updated it with some blurring effects to make it look less distractingly cartoonish. From there I played with brush strokes to find which one resembled fluffy fuzzy wuzzy bee hair. And then I drew a skull on the bee as Hamlet demands I do. It’s style is reminiscent of the death’s heads I find on the slate gravestones that I admire so much. It’s crude, at best, I know, but it works! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I may have been wandering around BritBox like a lost lamb when I found something called Upstart Crow – which is apparently a very British comedy about Shakespeare’s life and it had me in stitches with it’s creative reinterpretations of the classics. This got me to wondering what Shakespeare would mean to a cheerfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21,11,13,15,17],"tags":[93,94,123,126,347,388,403,592,598,633,634,643],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-halloween","category-literary-inspiration","category-movie-inspiration","category-punderful","category-tv-inspiration","tag-bee","tag-bees","tag-bug","tag-bugs","tag-hamlet","tag-insect","tag-joke","tag-rave-review","tag-reinterpetation","tag-shakespeare","tag-shakespeare-pun","tag-show","has-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/glenthecaterpillar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}