{"id":182318,"date":"2015-10-21T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/21\/i-preferred-the-olivier-and-branagh-and-the-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-versions\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:12:00","slug":"i-preferred-the-olivier-and-branagh-and-the-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/21\/i-preferred-the-olivier-and-branagh-and-the-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"I Preferred the Olivier, and Branagh, and the Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson Versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 350px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ks-NbCHUns?rel=0\" width=\"340\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>It is interesting how Shakespeare on the screen has changed over the past 60 years<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I am sick to death of Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; act about running for President.  <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/257595-biden-to-make-announcement-from-white-house\">this play&#8217;s run has finally ended<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Vice President Biden on Wednesday announced he is not running for president in 2016, forgoing a primary battle against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and likely signaling an end to a political career that has spanned four decades.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Ending months of speculation about his plans, Biden said he could not see a path forward for his candidacy. The window of opportunity, he declared, \u201chas closed.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cUnfortunately, I believe we\u2019re out of time \u2014 the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The 72-year-old vice president made the announcement from the White House Rose Garden with his wife, Jill, and President Obama at his side.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand that this is an emotionally fraught decision, coming less than 6 months after the death of his son, but the general media freak-out over this has really gotten old.<\/p>\n<p>I am so glad that we won&#8217;t have to be hearing pundits speculate over this crap any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting how Shakespeare on the screen has changed over the past 60 years I am sick to death of Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Hamlet&#8221; act about running for President. Thankfully, this play&#8217;s run has finally ended: Vice President Biden on Wednesday announced he is not running for president in 2016, forgoing a primary battle against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182318"}],"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=182318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}