{"id":35902,"date":"2021-12-13T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T17:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=35902"},"modified":"2021-12-12T03:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T08:23:22","slug":"elf-advent-calendar-review-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/elf-advent-calendar-review-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/elf2020ac13.jpg\" title=\"Ming Ming (shown twice actual size)\" width=\"135\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so the female elf was repainted to be Jovie, and now Papa Elf has been repainted to be Ming Ming. In retrospect, I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=34905\">the Gremlins advent calendar<\/a> had a bunch of repeats like this, too, but somehow it seemed less noticeable there? Maybe if I were actually reviewing these one per day, like you're supposed to, instead of scheduling them all in a row here in springtime. Still, getting Ming Ming with his little painted beard is a nice inclusion, even if the sculpt is reused: he's played by Peter Billingsley, aka Ralphie in <i>A Christmas Story<\/i>. And he'd later work in another Jon-Favreau-directed movie when he was being yelled at by Obadiah Stane about a box of scraps.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/elf-advent-calendar-review-day-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 20\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/elf-advent-calendar-review-day-20\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 20<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Elf Advent Calendar addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/elf-advent-calendar-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Elf Advent Calendar addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/elf-advent-calendar-review-day-16\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 16<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 21\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/elf-advent-calendar-review-day-21\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Elf Advent Calendar review - Day 21<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so the female elf was repainted to be Jovie, and now Papa Elf has been repainted to be Ming Ming. In retrospect, I guess the Gremlins advent calendar had a bunch of repeats like this, too, but somehow it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/elf-advent-calendar-review-day-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,68],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-35902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent-calendars","category-jakks","tag-elf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36075,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35902\/revisions\/36075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}