{"id":4951,"date":"2014-12-19T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T06:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2014-12-19T22:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T06:51:01","slug":"i-would-have-watched-the-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4951","title":{"rendered":"I would have watched The Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest.<\/p>\n<p>If Chris wasn&#8217;t at a General Assembly class (that was booked months ago) and if I wasn&#8217;t having a case of anti <i>tag and bag<\/i> (aka take everyone&#8217;s electronic devices and have them unsecurely checked in outside the theater), I would have been at the Metreon in line to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/12\/17\/7412393\/sony-cancels-the-interview-release-after-theaters-pull-out\">The Interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not the first one to admit that from the trailers which I have seen on multiple occasions that I was unimpressed.  Fart jokes.  And more unseemingly jokes.  Sexist and racist jokes.  And a mcguffin that seemed preposterous.  Yes, it wouldn&#8217;t be a movie that I would go out of my way to see.<\/p>\n<p>But you see, the topic.  North Korea.  Sometimes I do admire Seth Rogen and James Franco.  And even with her bit part, Lizzy Caplan, why not?  And fellow Asians, well why not?<\/p>\n<p>But then I started hearing news of potential terrorist attacks.  I declared that I did not want to die at a movie like this.  I didn&#8217;t want to go down in history as a victim of someone who went to see a movie that was about people who were making idiotic jokes.  And more.<\/p>\n<p>Then stuff happened.  And I was just so close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest. If Chris wasn&#8217;t at a General Assembly class (that was booked months ago) and if I wasn&#8217;t having a case of anti tag and bag (aka take everyone&#8217;s electronic devices and have them unsecurely checked in outside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4952,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4951\/revisions\/4952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}