{"id":3460,"date":"2009-05-29T17:25:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T21:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2009-05-29T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T18:00:45","slug":"thats-one-way-of-putting-it-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way of putting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/hollywood\/magazine\/17-06\/mf_deltoro?currentPage=all\">Guillermo del Toro<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Hollywood thinks art is like Latin in the Middle Ages\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly a few should know it, only a few should speak it. I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the interview is also pretty interesting &#8212; I like how he concedes, &#8220;the fact that I have a simulacrum of a career is a wonder,&#8221; as well as this bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">It comes from my first trip to New York as a child. I was walking around Central Park, and I saw one of these expensive apartment buildings. At the top was a Gothic tower, and I said to my mother, &#8220;A vampire lives there.&#8221; I wasn&#8217;t being metaphorical. Then we went into the subway and\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwow! For a guy from Guadalajara, the subway is mythical. The underground of the city is like what&#8217;s underground in people. Beneath the surface, it&#8217;s boiling with monsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\">SF Signal<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guillermo del Toro: Hollywood thinks art is like Latin in the Middle Ages\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly a few should know it, only a few should speak it. I don&#8217;t think so. The rest of the interview is also pretty interesting &#8212; I like how he concedes, &#8220;the fact that I have a simulacrum of a career is a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3460\">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-3460","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\/3460"}],"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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}