{"id":477,"date":"2003-11-21T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2018-08-09T08:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:36:07","slug":"477","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/21\/477\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for the Sentiment, Pinhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I am being too harsh, but I get a little riled when a Hollywooder <i>loves<\/i> the Midwest, like when director of <i>The Day After<\/i> Nicholas Meyer <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrence.com\/news\/movie_specials\/story\/124521\" target=\"new\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have an enormous soft spot for the Midwest and the hospitality, the generosity and the openness of a lot of the people who live there,&#8221; says Meyer, a graduate of the University of Iowa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smeg off.  There, you feel more at home, pinhead?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I am just a tad sensitive whenever a coastal type talks about Midwesterners.  Typically, though, they like to ruffle their fingers through our hair and tell us we&#8217;re good kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I am being too harsh, but I get a little riled when a Hollywooder loves the Midwest, like when director of The Day After Nicholas Meyer says: &#8220;I have an enormous soft spot for the Midwest and the hospitality, the generosity and the openness of a lot of the people who live there,&#8221; says [&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-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22065,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/22065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}