{"id":481,"date":"2003-11-23T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2018-08-09T08:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:16:36","slug":"481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/23\/481\/","title":{"rendered":"The Walk Off Home Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just saw <i>The <strike>Meta<\/strike>Matrix Revolutions<\/i>, and it was a good movie.  The ending was a ground rule double.  They just missed the homer by a couple feet.<\/p>\n<p>What would the home run ending have been, you ask?<\/p>\n<p>If Neo had <b>woken up at his computer<\/b> as he had at the beginning of the first movie.<\/p>\n<p>The story would have turned on itself a final time, leaving the viewer to wonder the meaning of that twist.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the <strike>Far<\/strike> <strike>Coe<\/strike> Wachoviaski brothers gave up the paranoia speculative fiction after the first movie and wanted to do a messianic piece instead.  Good for them.<\/p>\n<p>I said good movie, but I better stop thinking about it before I change my mind.  Regardless, I am glad to have seen it, if merely so I can stop talking about it and inadvertently using the name of my former employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just saw The MetaMatrix Revolutions, and it was a good movie. The ending was a ground rule double. They just missed the homer by a couple feet. What would the home run ending have been, you ask? If Neo had woken up at his computer as he had at the beginning of the first [&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-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","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=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22055,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/22055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}