{"id":2576,"date":"2009-06-18T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2009-06-18T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T03:15:00","slug":"on-tristram-shandy-and-other-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"On Tristram Shandy and Other Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think <i>Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story<\/i> may be the funniest movie I&#8217;ve seen this year.  If not the last year or two.  Certainly the funniest I&#8217;ve seen since <i>Shoot &#8216;Em Up<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I realize it&#8217;s been out for a couple of years, but it&#8217;s hilarious.  And you have to pay attention to it.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, it has Kelly Macdonald.  Oh!  And Stephen Fry.  Oh!  And Gillian Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Also some guy named Steve Coogan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never read the book.  I think I&#8217;m going to read the book.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;ve gone and bought a Uwe Boll movie.<\/p>\n<p>Target has <i>In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale<\/i> on sale for $3.98 through Saturday.  I was dropping off film for development, and while I was there I decided to see what they had.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s going to be terrible.  I&#8217;ve no doubt of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story may be the funniest movie I&#8217;ve seen this year. If not the last year or two. Certainly the funniest I&#8217;ve seen since Shoot &#8216;Em Up. Yes, I realize it&#8217;s been out for a couple of years, but it&#8217;s hilarious. And you have to pay attention to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2576\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Tristram Shandy and Other Movies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}