{"id":1263,"date":"2008-05-21T14:17:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2008-05-22T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T14:56:26","slug":"all-this-politics-is-bringing-me-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/05\/21\/all-this-politics-is-bringing-me-down\/","title":{"rendered":"All this politics is bringing me down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to brighten the mood than to bring Hitler into the mix?<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CV4i7dWeu0c&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/downfall\/\">Downfall<\/a>, do yourself a favor.  Bruno Ganz is mesmerizing, and I don&#8217;t mean that in the usual People-Magazine-movie-review sense, either.  More like the Elizabeth-Berkley-in-Showgirls* sense.  You know what I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout.<\/p>\n<p>*Or, if you prefer, the episode of Saved By The Bell when Jessie My<strong>r<\/strong>tle Spano gets hooked on caffeine pills in her quest for academic perfection, the acting in which rivals not only Ganz&#8217;s portrayal of the crazed, cornered German dictator, but also Burt Reynolds&#8217; turn in Woody Allen&#8217;s <em>Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What better way to brighten the mood than to bring Hitler into the mix? If you haven&#8217;t seen Downfall, do yourself a favor. Bruno Ganz is mesmerizing, and I don&#8217;t mean that in the usual People-Magazine-movie-review sense, either. More like the Elizabeth-Berkley-in-Showgirls* sense. You know what I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout. *Or, if you prefer, the episode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-movies","category-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-kn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}