{"id":1478,"date":"2004-09-19T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2018-06-01T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:12:21","slug":"1478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/19\/1478\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Wife to a Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is it purportedly the President&#8217;s favorite movie, but <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0090728\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Big Trouble in Little China<\/i><\/a> attains legendary status because it combines the prodigious talents of Al Heong and James Hong&#8230;.not to mention Gerald Okamura, best known for his turn as the master in <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0101255\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>9 1\/2 Ninjas<\/i><\/a> (which is unbelievably not yet on DVD!)<\/p>\n<p>Face it, the movie depicts the lampooned American hero, out of his depth and slightly inept in the face of the world, but with a good heart and good reflexes, he manages to save the day.  Conservatism at its best.  You hear Rush Limbaugh doing his radio show tongue in cheek, lightly mocking himself&#8230;.you hear Al Franken doing that?  Perhaps I would, if I listened.<\/p>\n<p>I watched this movie over and over on Showtime when I was in high school, and over and over on VHS taped from Showtime when I was in college.  As a matter of fact, for my Scriptwriting class, when our group was assigned to create the pitch for a television series, I dominated the group into producing <i>Tales from the Pork Chop Express<\/i>.  And now I have shared it with <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweave.mu.nu\" target=\"_new\">la luz de mi vida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And she said it was okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only is it purportedly the President&#8217;s favorite movie, but Big Trouble in Little China attains legendary status because it combines the prodigious talents of Al Heong and James Hong&#8230;.not to mention Gerald Okamura, best known for his turn as the master in 9 1\/2 Ninjas (which is unbelievably not yet on DVD!) Face it, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","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=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19943,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/19943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}