{"id":2689,"date":"2007-08-29T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2007-08-29T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T02:49:00","slug":"2689","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2689","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">In his <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070827\/REVIEWS\/70817016\/-1\/RSS\">review<\/a> of <i>Balls of Fury<\/i>, Roger Ebert writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ping-Pong* is to tennis as foosball is to soccer. I know it&#8217;s on cable now, with lots of controversy over slower balls and faster paddles, but it retains for me only memories of rainy days at summer camp. I have never lost all affection for the sport, however, and am careful to play it at least once every decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ping-Pong is on cable now? And it&#8217;s controversial? <i>Really<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>A.O. Scott of <i>The New York Times<\/i>, meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/29\/movies\/29fury.html?ex=1346040000&#038;en=84b485bb44468c85&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">calls the film<\/a> &#8220;must viewing for Christopher Walken completists who have mislaid their pecial collector&#8217;s edition DVD of &#8216;The Country Bears.'&#8221; High praise indeed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his review of Balls of Fury, Roger Ebert writes: Ping-Pong* is to tennis as foosball is to soccer. I know it&#8217;s on cable now, with lots of controversy over slower balls and faster paddles, but it retains for me only memories of rainy days at summer camp. I have never lost all affection for &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2689\">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":[238],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689"}],"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=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}