{"id":1517,"date":"2004-09-30T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2018-08-01T07:57:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T12:57:25","slug":"1517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/30\/1517\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from Psuedobabblerhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So tonight&#8217;s first movie is the 1932 rendition of <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0050379\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>A Farewell to Arms<\/i><\/a> starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.  Here are my thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Man, Helen Hayes was kinda cute, but she&#8217;s like, what, 4 foot tall?\n<li>Good to see Gary Cooper was as cross-eyed as I am.\n<li>You want to know a secret about the quality of DVDs you get when you buy a classic double feature for $10?  Man, it&#8217;s authentic.  I got every pop and his in the soundtrack in surround sound, baby.  If only I had HDTV, undoubtedly it would be as pixelated as playing Doom on an Atari 2600.  Which I think was called <a href=\"http:\/\/atariage.com\/software_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=1627\" target=\"_new\">Gunfight<\/a>, by the way, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.\n<li>Some people, particularly academics (especially those attending Colorado universities) would say that one could not truncate or chop up a Hemingway novel, but this movie indicates that you can.  It&#8217;s not a bad movie, but it&#8217;s just a shell of what the book was.\n<p>Of course, some would continue to cast aspersions on Hemingway&#8217;s novels, instead preferring the continental confuance of James Joyce.  When I encounter these people, I prefer to engage them in a rigorous drunken brawl.  I know that&#8217;s what Papa would have wanted.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So tonight&#8217;s first movie is the 1932 rendition of A Farewell to Arms starring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Here are my thoughts: Man, Helen Hayes was kinda cute, but she&#8217;s like, what, 4 foot tall? Good to see Gary Cooper was as cross-eyed as I am. You want to know a secret about the [&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-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","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=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21039,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/21039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}