{"id":2248,"date":"2005-05-13T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2018-06-08T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T22:39:30","slug":"fanboy-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/13\/fanboy-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanboy Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his review of <i>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/i>, Mark Steyn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/index2.cfm?edit_id=26\" target=\"_new\">makes a gaffe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe ordinariness of Freeman is just right for the Dent role. To see him on some dusty lunarscape is to see the essence of Douglas Adams\u2019s paradoxical world: a vast corner of a very foreign galaxy that is forever England \u2014 or, as one book title put it, The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But <i>The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul<\/i> is a Dirk Gently novel, not one of the five books (and one short story *) in the <i>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/i> trilogy.<\/p>\n<p>*  Of course, the short story is &#8220;Young Zaphod Plays It Safe&#8221; which is available in the anthology editions.  You <i>did<\/i> know that, didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, who has a British-sounding accent, should have known better.  He&#8217;s trying to pass as informed but, :: sniff ::, he is obviously not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his review of The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy, Mark Steyn makes a gaffe: The ordinariness of Freeman is just right for the Dent role. To see him on some dusty lunarscape is to see the essence of Douglas Adams\u2019s paradoxical world: a vast corner of a very foreign galaxy that is forever England [&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-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","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=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20122,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/20122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}