{"id":2088,"date":"2015-01-19T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2015-01-19T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T14:55:48","slug":"he-took-his-skin-off-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"He Took His Skin Off For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/english.wisc.edu\/devilslake\/issues\/spring2013\/Hummer.html\">this short fiction<\/a> by Toledo-native Maria Hummer, \u201cHe Took His Skin Off For Me\u201d is a gorgeously literal and so all-the-more-poetic short film made by Ben Aston, his London School of Film graduation project exploring (and winning) the use of practical special effects. There is also a making-of-behind-the-scenes video at <a href=\"http:\/\/hetookhisskinoffforme.com\">the film\u2019s website<\/a>. The story (and the film) begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is this what you want? he asked, and I said yes, so he took off his skin for me.<br \/>\n  He was beautiful, shining red organs and crisp bones. I stepped forward to embrace him. I felt his naked wet muscles against my arms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/116498390\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on this short fiction by Toledo-native Maria Hummer, \u201cHe Took His Skin Off For Me\u201d is a gorgeously literal and so all-the-more-poetic short film made by Ben Aston, his London School of Film graduation project exploring (and winning) the use of practical special effects. There is also a making-of-behind-the-scenes video at the film\u2019s website. The story (and the film) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}