{"id":101,"date":"2005-10-11T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T03:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2005\/10\/11\/return-of-the-17-year-cicadas\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T23:46:21","slug":"return-of-the-17-year-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/return-of-the-17-year-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the 17-Year Cicadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/features\/kids\/2005-09\/aaft-csi091605.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/yearofthecicada.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"349\" alt=\"Return of the 17-Year Cicadas\" \/><\/a> Way back in July a man by the name of Samuel Orr mailed me a DVD trailer of a film he had a part in making called Return of the 17-Year Cicadas. At the time my reaction was &#8220;I am simply blown away by its excellence. That might be the best cicada video I&#8217;ve seen so far&#8221;. Somehow I let it slip through the cracks and I forgot to write about it. In the mean time the movie has won first prize in the Non-Interactive Media category of the 2005 Science &#038; Engineering Visualization Challenge. I&#8217;m sure once the film reaches a wider audience &#8212; perhaps PBS or the Animal Planet channel (hint! hint!) &#8212; it will win more awards.<\/p>\n<p>Read all about the new, award winning cicada documentary Return of the 17-Year Cicadas on the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/features\/kids\/2005-09\/aaft-csi091605.php\">EurekAlert! Science Reporting Alert website<\/a>. Make sure you download and watch the video too. It is incredible. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Roy and Dona for reminding me to post something about this film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in July a man by the name of Samuel Orr mailed me a DVD trailer of a film he had a part in making called Return of the 17-Year Cicadas. At the time my reaction was &#8220;I am simply blown away by its excellence. That might be the best cicada video I&#8217;ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,1054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magicicada","category-pop-culture","category-samuel-orr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}