{"id":14019,"date":"2002-05-19T22:24:53","date_gmt":"2002-05-20T03:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/19\/resigned-to-another-blockbuster\/"},"modified":"2002-05-19T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2002-05-20T03:24:53","slug":"resigned-to-another-blockbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/19\/14019-resigned-to-another-blockbuster\/","title":{"rendered":"Resigned to Another Blockbuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Interesting article by film critic A.O. Scott in today&#8217;s <i>The New York Times<\/i>, lamenting the current crop of lackluster Hollywood blockbusters. LOTR is mentioned as a rare exception:<\/p>\n<p><i>And of course there are still grand, commercial entertainments with the power to amaze and transport us. The first installment in Peter Jackson&#8217;s &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; trilogy, for instance, was a work of unfettered, disciplined ingenuity designed to nurture the imaginations of its viewers rather than to numb them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You must register on the website to read the entire article, but registration is free. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/05\/19\/movies\/19SCOT.html\" target=\"new\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article by film critic A.O. Scott in today&#8217;s The New York Times, lamenting the current crop of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3E7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}