{"id":1032,"date":"2004-06-12T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2018-08-13T15:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:30:41","slug":"1032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/12\/1032\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Shoe Is on the Other Foot, Wear It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zudos to Joe Williams of the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> who demonstrates through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/entertainment\/reviews.nsf\/Movie\/161680354ABE8C0A86256EAE0077F89D?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Diesel-powered+'Riddick'+is+fantasy+fluff\" target=\"new\">his review of <i>The Chronicles of Riddick<\/i><\/a> that he truly has dizzying intellect:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the grand hall of a mothership that resembles a mid-century Chrysler on steroids, the Lord Marshal mentions that the Necromonger army is composed of forced converts from other religions. So maybe &#8220;The Chronicles of Riddick&#8221; is supposed to be a parable about American imperialism, sweeping other cultures into its maw. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, we have a culture that either converts, enslaves, or kills other cultures that do not adhere to its tenets, and that culture represents <i><b>American imperialism<\/b><\/i>?  One man stands against them, but Williams doesn&#8217;t enlighten us to whether that one man who fights reluctantly against the hordes illustrates the struggle of stringy-haired Berkleyans, French diplomat sophisticates, or the Arab street.  Wholly schnucking deconstructionism, fatman!<\/p>\n<p>His college professors must be awfully damn proud of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zudos to Joe Williams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who demonstrates through his review of The Chronicles of Riddick that he truly has dizzying intellect: In the grand hall of a mothership that resembles a mid-century Chrysler on steroids, the Lord Marshal mentions that the Necromonger army is composed of forced converts from other religions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23214,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/23214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}