{"id":166423,"date":"2015-02-24T02:02:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T02:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/24\/silentauroriamthereal-botanycameos\/"},"modified":"2018-09-10T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:13:48","slug":"silentauroriamthereal-botanycameos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/24\/silentauroriamthereal-botanycameos\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-166423 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/24\/silentauroriamthereal-botanycameos\/attachment\/166424\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_m4crgrRnW41qcpikno1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_m4crgrRnW41qcpikno1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tumblr_m4crgrRnW41qcpikno1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/silentauroriamthereal.tumblr.com\/post\/110735482760\/botanycameos-half-past-chaffinch\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">silentauroriamthereal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/botanycameos.tumblr.com\/post\/110731721902\/half-past-chaffinch-happilymordacious\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">botanycameos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/half-past-chaffinch.tumblr.com\/post\/108792377856\/happilymordacious-sherlocked-with-thebeatles\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">half-past-chaffinch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/happilymordacious.tumblr.com\/post\/59922446800\/sherlocked-with-thebeatles\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">happilymordacious<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sherlocked-with-thebeatles.tumblr.com\/post\/53165069324\/doctorwhoslostcompanion\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">sherlocked-with-thebeatles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doctorwhoslostcompanion.tumblr.com\/post\/53082191305\/initiallyiwantedtobeapirate\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">doctorwhoslostcompanion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/initiallyiwantedtobeapirate.tumblr.com\/post\/53018451249\/consulting-mcbender-atropabelladonna1120\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">initiallyiwantedtobeapirate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consulting-mcbender.tumblr.com\/post\/23463004782\/atropabelladonna1120-okay-this-is-going-to-be\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">consulting-mcbender<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atropabelladonna1120.tumblr.com\/post\/23462158392\/okay-this-is-going-to-be-sappy-so-youve-been\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">atropabelladonna1120<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Okay, this is going to be sappy, so you\u2019ve been warned.<\/p>\n<p>I look at this photograph and I\u2019m reminded that there\u2019s one other thing that makes Benedict stand out among other actors and celebrities of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>There is a fundamental <i>innocence<\/i> about him.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean that in a sexual sense, although for someone who probably has women (certainly female fans) falling at his feet, he strikes me as being remarkably unassuming about his attractiveness. (Even when he\u2019s been photographed with a girlfriend, I\u2019ve never seen him look smug or act like a lady\u2019s man; he just always seems genuinely happy to have this person, whoever it is, at his side).<\/p>\n<p>Here is a man who has grown up around famous names; walked dozens, if not hundreds, of red carpets; been styled and photographed and interviewed countless times. He\u2019s traveled the world, taught English at a Tibetan monastery, been abducted by thugs and lived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n<p>And yet for all that, he\u2019s remarkably guileless and open and decent. Doesn\u2019t he strike you as being such a <i>decent<\/i> man?<\/p>\n<p>Someone who sees good in most people in spite of having been stuffed into the trunk of a car and not knowing if he\u2019d make it out of there alive.<\/p>\n<p>Someone who, in the commentary for ASiB, could have taken a joke about Lara Pulver\u2019s nudity (a joke that Lara herself started) and run with it, but who chose instead to steer the conversation toward safer ground.<\/p>\n<p>Someone who sincerely wishes a friend well, even when that friend has taken on the same role in a rival production.<\/p>\n<p>I look at this picture and I see all of this. I see the focus, but I also see that remarkable guilelessness, that fundamental innocence and decency, that essential \u2026 <i>unspoiledness<\/i>, if there is such a word.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that\u2019s it. He\u2019s unspoiled: by fear or trauma, by fame and celebrity. When he sings, \u201cCome with me, and you\u2019ll be\/In a world of pure imagination,\u201d you can really see that this could be close to what his inner life is like: that sense of wonder, of gratitude at being alive and being able to do the things he loves.<\/p>\n<p>And I hope that never changes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The accuracy of what you just wrote is incredible. He\u2019s genuinely humble and completely unaware of what it is that makes us all love him so much. There\u2019s so much to love and admire about him that it always amazes me when he\u2019s surprised by our attention. This is why I love him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m4zc1fMLux1rwcc6bo1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Benedict needs to find this!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SIGNAL BOOST<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>god i love him<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And though, a few years later, he seems more *cautious* he doesn\u2019t seem more callous \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Agreed!&lt;3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This post is so perfect, it summarises almost everything I love about Benedict. And I mean that \u201clove\u201d quite, quite sincerely &#8211; I love him more than I ever believed it could be possible to love a person I\u2019ve never met and these are a lot of the reasons why. &lt;3333333<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>silentauroriamthereal: botanycameos: half-past-chaffinch: happilymordacious: sherlocked-with-thebeatles: doctorwhoslostcompanion: initiallyiwantedtobeapirate: consulting-mcbender: atropabelladonna1120: Okay, this is going to be sappy, so you\u2019ve been warned. I look at this photograph and I\u2019m reminded that there\u2019s one other thing that makes Benedict stand out among other actors and celebrities of his generation. There is a fundamental innocence about him. I don\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/02\/24\/silentauroriamthereal-botanycameos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[882,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166425,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166423\/revisions\/166425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}