{"id":20526,"date":"2018-07-14T10:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20526"},"modified":"2018-12-21T05:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T11:40:52","slug":"they-could-not-suspend-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/14\/they-could-not-suspend-disbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"They Could Not Suspend Disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I might have mentioned, my boys and I are watching all the James Bond films in order.<\/p>\n<p>Last night we got to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B011MHCXVI\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B011MHCXVI&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=544f06f63e748e1fa8e6ba58fcd6e020\" target=\"_new\">Moonraker<\/a><\/em>, the most outrageous and outlandish film in the series which piggy-backed off of the box office success of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FQJAIW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000FQJAIW&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=53a3fc30793b037130a609f2f4e99b88\" target=\"_new\">Star Wars<\/em><\/a> to inject a science fiction element to the series and features laser battles in space.  It also was the largest grossing Bond film for a long time (he said, summarizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moonraker\" target=\"_new\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/moonraker.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As my children watched it, they could not suspend their disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the film featured:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Space shuttles, which were space craft that lifted off like rockets and landed like planes.<\/li>\n<li>Bent-nosed supersonic passenger airplanes that could cross the Atlantic ocean in three hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Given that my oldest was born in 2006, he cannot remember such things, so perhaps he could not believe them possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I might have mentioned, my boys and I are watching all the James Bond films in order. Last night we got to Moonraker, the most outrageous and outlandish film in the series which piggy-backed off of the box office success of Star Wars to inject a science fiction element to the series and features [&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-20526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526","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=20526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24037,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20526\/revisions\/24037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}