{"id":14861,"date":"2015-10-22T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14861"},"modified":"2015-10-22T05:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T10:45:51","slug":"another-joke-i-get-thirty-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/another-joke-i-get-thirty-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Joke I Get Thirty Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I watched the 1984 film <em>Romancing the Stone<\/em>, and at the beginning, when John Colton meets Joan Wilder, she offers him $375 in traveler&#8217;s checks to take her to town.  He asks if they&#8217;re American Express.<\/p>\n<p>Because Michael Douglas, who played John Colton, was in <em>Streets of San Francisco<\/em> with Karl Malden, who later was the pitch man for American Express Traveller&#8217;s Cheques.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/streetsofsanfrancisco.jpg\" height=\"200\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/karlmalden.jpg\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p>Douglas and Malden remained good friends after the detective show ended, so this probably is an inside joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I watched the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, and at the beginning, when John Colton meets Joan Wilder, she offers him $375 in traveler&#8217;s checks to take her to town. He asks if they&#8217;re American Express. Because Michael Douglas, who played John Colton, was in Streets of San Francisco with Karl Malden, who later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861","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=14861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14862,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14861\/revisions\/14862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}