{"id":1038,"date":"2005-11-20T18:08:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T18:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2005-11-20T18:08:36","modified_gmt":"2005-11-20T18:08:36","slug":"you_might_want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"You Might Want To Rethink The Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me an e-mail gushing about a documentary titled <a href=\"http:\/\/39poundsoflove.com\/main.html\">39 Pounds of Love<\/a>.  It&#8217;s about a thirtysomething Israeli man with SMA named Ami who goes to America in search of his childhood physician, who told Ami&#8217;s family that he wouldn&#8217;t live past age six.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve only looked at the trailer, but I&#8217;m not sure I see the dramatic tension in this concept.  Various physicians probably gave my parents a similar prognosis for me, but I couldn&#8217;t even tell you what their names were.  Doctors make inaccurate prognoses all the time; life goes on.  Or maybe I just attach less significance to that sort of thing.<br \/>\nAnd can we please, please have a documentary about people with disabilities that doesn&#8217;t elicit reviews that use words like &#8220;inspiring&#8221; and &#8220;moving&#8221;?  I want a documentary that shows us as neurotic, dull, pompous, shallow, and ordinary as everyone else.  I want a documentary that shows us fighting with our siblings, swearing at people in authority, getting drunk, and sleeping around.  Come to think of it, I want to be in that documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sent me an e-mail gushing about a documentary titled 39 Pounds of Love. It&#8217;s about a thirtysomething Israeli man with SMA named Ami who goes to America in search of his childhood physician, who told Ami&#8217;s family that he wouldn&#8217;t live past age six. I&#8217;ve only looked at the trailer, but I&#8217;m not sure <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1038' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-gK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}