{"id":178693,"date":"2018-09-17T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/17\/find-me-a-producer-ive-got-one-f-of-a-treatment\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T23:46:00","slug":"find-me-a-producer-ive-got-one-f-of-a-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/17\/find-me-a-producer-ive-got-one-f-of-a-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Me a Producer, I&#8217;ve Got one F%$# of a Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is, as the saying goes, ripped from the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the best heist movie concept, and in this case, the headline is that, in response to Brexit concerns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2018\/09\/11\/brexit-might-be-so-bad-that-cadburys-is-stockpiling-chocolate-just-case\/\">Cadbury creating a massive stockpile of chocolate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union next year, but it still hasn\u2019t reached a deal on how exactly this could happen. If it leaves Europe without a deal, some experts have warned that there may be chaos at the borders and a shortage of key goods. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the owner of the beloved confectionary brand Cadbury announced that the company has a plan to deal with the threat of this dreaded \u201cno-deal\u201d Brexit: a chocolate stockpile.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Think about the action, think about the adventure, think about the tension, and think about the merch that you could sell.<\/p>\n<p>Before you ask, I am aware that an actual sweet food stockpile has been stolen, the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist\">great Canadian maple syrup heist<\/a>, but that just adds verisimilitude.<\/p>\n<p>And just think about the obligatory love making scene between the mastermind and the cop who has been pursuing them.<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate \u2026\u2026\u2026 And Strawberries \u2026\u2026\u2026 And Gentle Heat.<\/p>\n<p>I smell razzie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is, as the saying goes, ripped from the headlines. It&#8217;s the best heist movie concept, and in this case, the headline is that, in response to Brexit concerns, Cadbury creating a massive stockpile of chocolate: Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union next year, but it still hasn\u2019t reached a deal on how &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,627,497,476,555],"class_list":["post-178693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-brexit","tag-cinema","tag-food","tag-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}