{"id":3307,"date":"2009-01-17T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T22:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2009-01-17T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T22:57:51","slug":"in-this-life-you-can-lose-everything-you-love-everything-that-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In this life you can lose everything you love, everything that loves you.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">This afternoon, I saw <i>The Wrestler<\/i> with a couple of friends (and writing group partners). It&#8217;s very good, if not exactly remarkable, almost solely because Mickey Rourke is so good. The rest of the cast and Darren Aronofsky deserve some of the credit, too, but it&#8217;s largely Rourke who elevates what&#8217;s otherwise a fairly predictable paint-by-numbers melodrama. I&#8217;m tempted to revisit (or visit for the first time) some of Rourke&#8217;s other work. There are a lot of really awful movies in there &#8212; you can&#8217;t have the comeback without the fall from grace &#8212; but the man is very gifted and natural actor.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, I saw The Wrestler with a couple of friends (and writing group partners). It&#8217;s very good, if not exactly remarkable, almost solely because Mickey Rourke is so good. The rest of the cast and Darren Aronofsky deserve some of the credit, too, but it&#8217;s largely Rourke who elevates what&#8217;s otherwise a fairly predictable &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3307\">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":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307"}],"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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}