{"id":194893,"date":"2008-08-10T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/why-i-wont-be-watching-the-republican-conventon\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T04:02:00","slug":"why-i-wont-be-watching-the-republican-conventon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/10\/why-i-wont-be-watching-the-republican-conventon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Won&#8217;t Be Watching the Republican Conventon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/08\/america\/09dick.php\">Cheney will be speaking on the first night of the convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same reason that I don&#8217;t watch slasher flicks, I don&#8217;t like being creeped out.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Though, interestingly enough, my second favorite film of all time, after Kurasawa&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Seven Samurai<\/span>, is John Carpenter&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Thing<\/span>, which, unlike the 1951 film, hews much closer to the John Campbell&#8217;s novella <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Who Goes There<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I would argue that the tension in the story is very different, and far more engaging, than the standard slasher flick.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheney will be speaking on the first night of the convention. It&#8217;s the same reason that I don&#8217;t watch slasher flicks, I don&#8217;t like being creeped out.* *Though, interestingly enough, my second favorite film of all time, after Kurasawa&#8217;s Seven Samurai, is John Carpenter&#8217;s The Thing, which, unlike the 1951 film, hews much closer to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194893"}],"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=194893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}