{"id":14326,"date":"2014-10-11T17:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2014-10-11T17:26:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:26:57","slug":"hollywood-flips-over-another-odd-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2014\/10\/11\/hollywood-flips-over-another-odd-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood flips over another odd product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander and the Very Good No Bad Very Bad Day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; doesn&#8217;t seem like it would work expanded to 80 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose they&#8217;ve fleshed out a trope of a family of &#8220;lucky&#8221; people for the no-luck Alexander to clash in, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; my 3rd grade teacher read this book relentlessly to us.\u00c2\u00a0 (Kind of became wearying).\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think she would like the movie.\u00c2\u00a0 (Apparently there&#8217;s a kangeroo in it, homage to his always wishing to go to Australia.)<\/p>\n<p>I may as well note someone recently search engined &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/08\/22\/the-problem-with-amelia-bedelia\/\">Amelia Bedelia<\/a>&#8221; and my problems with her &#8212; like the problem people had with Alanis Morrisette&#8217;s &#8220;Ironic&#8221; song, but compounded due to them being validated by an unquestioned authority.\u00c2\u00a0 If they make a children&#8217;s movie out of that one, will they make the due correction?\u00c2\u00a0 (Harder to stretch that to 80 minutes, though.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander and the Very Good No Bad Very Bad Day&#8230; &#8230; doesn&#8217;t seem like it would work expanded to 80 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose they&#8217;ve fleshed out a trope of a family of &#8220;lucky&#8221; people for the no-luck Alexander to clash in, but&#8230; &#8230; my 3rd grade teacher read this book relentlessly to us.\u00c2\u00a0 (Kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14327,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions\/14327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}