{"id":2414,"date":"2009-03-17T23:16:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2009-03-17T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T03:17:34","slug":"a-capsule-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/a-capsule-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A capsule review"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>most of it is such a carbon copy of the book that some of what alan&#8217;s saying gets across by accident. it&#8217;s kind of like someone with no sense of humour retelling a joke he heard once. some lines are taken out of context and you remember them from the book so you KNOW they&#8217;re a good line, you KNOW they made sense and had a purpose once but without that it&#8217;s probably just another &#8216;i gave birth to the 20th century&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s Haley Campbell, daughter of the esteemed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddie_Campbell\">Eddie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/eddiecampbell.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/i-believe-i-have-lately-admitted-to.html\">talking about Watchmen<\/a>. I still haven&#8217;t seen Watchmen, but oddly enough, what she says there is almost exactly my review of Coraline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">most of it is such a carbon copy of the book that some of what alan&#8217;s saying gets across by accident. it&#8217;s kind of like someone with no sense of humour retelling a joke he heard once. some lines are taken out of context and you remember them from the book so you KNOW they&#8217;re a good line, you KNOW&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/a-capsule-review\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[109,232,27,457],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-adaptations","tag-alan-moore","tag-movies","tag-reviews","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-CW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}