{"id":11234,"date":"2014-04-20T22:33:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T02:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2014-04-20T22:33:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T02:33:23","slug":"hoppy-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11234","title":{"rendered":"Hoppy Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/13935987261\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7349\/13935987261_b89e6f7ec2_c.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I watched <i>G.I. Joe: Retaliation<\/i> for&#8230;reasons, I suppose. I watched the first movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4473\">years ago<\/a>, and while it was plainly terrible, it was also surprisingly entertaining in that terribleness. I wish I could say the same for its sequel. Despite the addition of Dwayne &#8220;the Rock&#8221; Johnson to the cast, and a brief moment of fun with Walton Goggins as a prison warden &#8212; seriously, I wanted movie just of his character &#8212; the movie was more just terrible.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/i>, which I watched today, was a whole lot better. Still, however, well made and acted the movie was, and however much fun, it was also very long, and a story a little empty beyond its mad excess.<\/p>\n<p>That, plus some <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i> reading, some home repairs, and an Easter buffet brunch with my parents, that was my weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Easter! Yesterday, I watched G.I. Joe: Retaliation for&#8230;reasons, I suppose. I watched the first movie years ago, and while it was plainly terrible, it was also surprisingly entertaining in that terribleness. I wish I could say the same for its sequel. Despite the addition of Dwayne &#8220;the Rock&#8221; Johnson to the cast, and a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11234\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,28],"class_list":["post-11234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11235,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}