{"id":11029,"date":"2009-09-23T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11029"},"modified":"2009-09-23T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:24:16","slug":"the-elephant-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11029","title":{"rendered":"The Elephant Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I identify with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Merrick\">The Elephant Man<\/a>. Sure, my flaws are more moral and psychological than physical, but I know what it is like to be a freak.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some painful memories from the set of Taboo 22, shot in 2007:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Throughout the day, Ava [Rose] says to me, &quot;Luke, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080678\/\">you&#8217;re          not an animal<\/a>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>DCypher: &quot;Despite what other women have said.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &quot;Despite what Holly says.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I first saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080678\">The Elephant Man<\/a> at Pacific Union College around 1980. They presented a specially edited version with some of the naughty bits cut out. I was not sure what was redacted, but I told my friends that night that in the real version, the Elephant Man had sex with the Anne Bancroft character.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I got to see the real version for the first time. There was no such sex.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what my dirty little mind was so preoccupied with when it was only 14? How could I have imagined such a monstrous thing?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, despite my flaws, I am not an animal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/Images\/photos\/elephant_man.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I identify with The Elephant Man. Sure, my flaws are more moral and psychological than physical, but I know what it is like to be a freak. Here are some painful memories from the set of Taboo 22, shot in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11029\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11029"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11034,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}