{"id":1886,"date":"2005-01-24T23:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T22:08:29","slug":"1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/24\/1886\/","title":{"rendered":"Unleash the Dogs of Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Slater explains why he loves London in a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2092-1399729,00.html\" target=\"_new\">Times of London<\/a>, December 12, 2004:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I like the fact that there\u2019s no gun culture here but I don\u2019t necessarily feel safer. There\u2019s a frisson in London that\u2019s similar to Los Angeles or New York, a sense that something might happen at any moment, and I really appreciate that. If I was moving for safety\u2019s sake, I\u2019d head for somewhere like Vancouver, but I enjoy living in a country that\u2019s a bit raw. In America there\u2019s a real sense of danger right now, a sense that lightning might strike at any time; it\u2019s not attractive. I prefer the edginess I find in London.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christian Slater is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/01\/24\/britain.slater.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">attack with an edgy weapon<\/a> in London, January 2005:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American actor Christian Slater has escaped a knife attack after a performance of his show in London&#8217;s West End.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, at least he&#8217;s safe from George W. Bush&#8217;s America and its gun culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Slater explains why he loves London in a story in the Times of London, December 12, 2004: I like the fact that there\u2019s no gun culture here but I don\u2019t necessarily feel safer. There\u2019s a frisson in London that\u2019s similar to Los Angeles or New York, a sense that something might happen at any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20658,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/20658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}