{"id":26983,"date":"2020-10-22T08:04:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26983"},"modified":"2020-10-21T13:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:55:55","slug":"that-would-make-an-interesting-movie-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/22\/that-would-make-an-interesting-movie-perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"That Would Make An Interesting Movie, Perhaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/21\/book-report-gardners-photographic-sketchbook-of-the-civil-war-by-alexander-gardner-1866-1959\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gardner&#8217;s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the prisoners brought to this place was a woman, clad in rebel gray.  She was taken, mounted astride a bony steed, apparently performing the duties of a scout, but claimed to belon to a battery of artillery.  A degraded, wild specimen of humanity, of Irish extraction, with a shock of tangled black hair hanging in elf locks down to her shoulders, she proved the centre of interest to idlers of the camp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like a role for Natalie Portman.<\/p>\n<p>But.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At these should would occasionally hurl stones, being particularly hostile towards the negroes, who gave her a wide berth, to avoid the missiles, which she threw with considerable force and accuracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that could be left out of the movie.  Along with the fact that this woman was a Confederate, which is also right out.<\/p>\n<p>So, never mind.  Maybe another super hero movie will do the trick.  Why haven&#8217;t we rebooted <em>Howard the Duck<\/em> yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gardner&#8217;s Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War: Among the prisoners brought to this place was a woman, clad in rebel gray. She was taken, mounted astride a bony steed, apparently performing the duties of a scout, but claimed to belon to a battery of artillery. A degraded, wild specimen of humanity, of Irish extraction, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983","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=26983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26984,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26983\/revisions\/26984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}